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Definition: FERETORY |
FERETORYNoun1. A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. |
Etymology: Feretory \Fer`e*to*ry\, noun. [Latin expression feretrum bier, Greek, from to bear, akin to Latin ferre, English bear to support.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Language | Translations for "FERETORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وحشية (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, butch, cannibalism, cruelty, devilry, ferocity, fierceness, inhumanity, ruffianism, savagery, shyness, thuggery, truculence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хранилище на мощи, гробница (bone-yard, crypt, monument, ossuary, sepulchre, tomb, vault), гроб (grave, lair, sepulchre, tomb, urn), погребална кола (hearse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | máry (bier, hearse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | férocité (ferocity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ravatal (bier, catafalque, hearse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eretoryfay selvagem (barbaric, brutal, goth, riderless, savage, truculent, unbacked, unsociable, wild, Wilding). (various references) рака (reliquary, sanctum, shrine). (various references) relicario (locket, reliquary, shrine). (various references) sarkofag (sarcophagus), relikskrin (phylactery, reliquary, shrine), relikkapell, bår (barrow, bier, litter, stretcher). (various references) kutsal emanet sandığı, kutsal emanet odası. (various references) рака (sanctum, shrine), гробниця (cist, entombment, reliquary, sepulchre, tomb, urn). (various references) miếu mạo cái đòn khiêng áo quan, miếu (temple), mộ (tomb), lăng (mausoleum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"FERETORY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ferrefort, feruntur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "FERETORY" (pronounced 'Fer`e*to*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-o-r-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: ferrety, torrefy. | |
-2 letters: ferret, retore. | |
-3 letters: ferry, fetor, feyer, forte, forty, foyer, freer, frere, frore, fryer, ofter, reefy, refer, refry, retro, retry, terry, toyer. | |
-4 letters: eery, eyer, eyre, feet, fere, fete, fore, fort, free, fret, froe, oyer, reef, reft, rete, rote, ryot, tore, torr, tory, tree, tref, trey, troy, tyee, tyer, tyre, tyro, yore. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-o-r-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: ferrotype, refectory. | |
+2 letters: effrontery, ferrotypes. | |
+5 letters: reflectometry, refractometry. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 52 45 54 4F 52 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-. . - --- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000101 01010010 01000101 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E R E T O R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0045 0052 0045 0054 004F 0052 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4039523954495259 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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