Disraeli

Definition: Disraeli

Disraeli

Noun

1. British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the Empress of India (1804-1881).

Date "Disraeli" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Specialty Definition: Disraeli

Domain	Definition
Biographical Satire	DISRAELI, a Hebrew who gave up the trades of his ancestors to run England. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
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Specialty Definition: Disraeli

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Disraeli is a 1929 film that was adapted by Julien Josephson and De Leon Anthony from a play by Louis N. Parker. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green.

The story is the biography of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and stars George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence, Joan Bennett and Florence Arliss.

Arliss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Films with the same title were released in 1916 and 1921, the 1921 version also starring Arliss.

Disraeli is also the name of a four-part Masterpiece Theatre series, ©1978 but first broadcast in the U.S. in June 1980, about the great statesman. Written by David Butler, produced by Cecil Clarke, directed by Claude Whatham, it stars Ian McShane (Disraeli), Mary Peach (Mary Anne), Rosemary Leach (Queen Victoria), and Anton Rodgers (George Bentick) and is available in a four-videotape set.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Disraeli."

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Synonyms: Disraeli

Synonyms: Benjamin Disraeli (n), First Earl of Beaconsfield (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Disraeli

English words defined with "Disraeli": agreeable ♦ Benjamin Disraeli. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Disraeli": DISRAELI ♦ Liberals, Lothair ♦ Oleaginous ♦ Refreshments, Runnymede ♦ Serbonian Bog, Side of the Angels ♦ Young England. (references)

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Modern Usage: Disraeli

Domain	Usage
Clever	Amusement to an observing mind is study. (references; author: Disraeli) Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. (references; author: Disraeli) Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter. (references; author: Disraeli) Characters do not change. -- Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. (references; author: Disraeli) Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. (references; author: Disraeli)
Movie/TV Titles	The Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963) Disraeli (1929)
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Commercial Usage: Disraeli

Domain	Title
Books	Dizzy; the life and personality of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (reference) Mrs. Dizzy: the life of Mary Anne Disraeli, Viscountess Beaconsfield (reference) The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, (reference) The works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield : embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories, and great speeches (reference) Disraeli Gears: Cream (Classic Rock Albums) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Disraeli Gears [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Disraeli

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Photo Album: Disraeli

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Benjamin Disraeli, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Disraeli

Author	Quotation
Benjamin Disraeli	We moralize among ruins.
	Justice is truth in action.
	Genius, when young, is divine.
	Duty cannot exist without faith.
	A precedent embalms a principle.
	Man is more powerful than matter.
	Never complain and never explain.
	Success is the child of audacity.
	Little things affect little minds.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Disraeli

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
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Usage Frequency: Disraeli

"Disraeli" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.13% of the time. "Disraeli" is used about 101 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	87.13%	88	35,154
Adjective (general or positive)	5.94%	6	143,867
Noun (plural)	3.96%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	2.97%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	101	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Disraeli

Expression using "Disraeli": Benjamin Disraeli. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Disraeli

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
disraeli	59
benjamin disraeli	49
biografia de disraeli	11
disraeli gears	10
disraeli gears cream	4
benjamin disraeli quote	4
disraeli quote	3
disraeli gladstone	2
benjamin biography disraeli	2
disraeli sf	2
disraeli quebec	2
benjamin cz disraeli	2
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Anagrams: Disraeli

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-r-s"
	-1 letter: dailies, dairies, deliria, derails, dialers, diaries, liaised, redials, sedilia.
	-2 letters: aiders, aisled, alders, ariels, ariled, deairs, deasil, derail, dialer, drails, ideals, idlers, iliads, irades, irides, irised, laders, ladies, lairds, laired, liaise, liards, lidars, railed, raised, redial, redias, relaid, resaid, resail, sailed, sailer, serail, serial, sialid, sidler, slider.
	-3 letters: aider, aides, ailed, aired, aisle.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-r-s"
	+1 letter: airfields, presidial, trailside.
	+2 letters: diableries, disclaimer, editorials, idealizers, idolatries, lapidaries, larvicides, linearised, radicalise, ribaldries, serialised, serialized.
	+3 letters: admiralties, disclaimers, disrelation, grainfields, interisland, liberalised, lipreadings, meridionals, militarised, mineralised, periodicals, plagiarised, radicalised, radicalises, radicalizes, radiologies, residential, revitalised, semidiurnal, spermicidal, trivialised.
	+4 letters: cardiologies, circularised, cordialities, depilatories, desirability, despairingly, detribalizes, digressional, dilatoriness, disrelations, distractible, distrainable, durabilities, editorialist, familiarised, immortalised, internalised, interstadial, laryngitides, materialised, memorialised, modularities, presidential, rationalised, reclassified, redisplaying, resocialized, restabilized, singularized, solidarities, subeditorial.
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