FRANCISCANS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Franciscans or Minorites (3 syl.). Founded in 1208 by St. Francis of Assisi, who called poverty "his bride." Poverty was the ruling principle of the order. Duns Scotus, Roger Bacon, Cardinal Ximenës, Ganganelli, etc., were of this order. Called Franciscans, from the name of their founder. " Minorites, from their professed humility. " Grey Friars, from the colour of their outer garment. " Mendicants, because they were one of the Begging or mendicant order. " Observants, because they strictly observed the rule of poverty. The Franciscan Sisters were known as Clares, or Poor Clares, Minoresses, Mendicants, and Urbanites. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: FRANCISCANS

English words defined with "FRANCISCANS": Cordelier ♦ Mendicant orders ♦ Observantine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "FRANCISCANS": Bartole, Begging Hermits, Beghards ♦ Friars, Friars Minor ♦ Mendicants, Minories ♦ Ventre-saint-Gris!. (references)

Commercial Usage: FRANCISCANS

Domain	Title
Books	Called to Make Present the Charism: Ongoing Formation for Secular Franciscans Based on the Footnotes of the Sfo Rule (Sfo Resource Library, 5) (reference) To Live As Francis Lived: A Guide for Secular Franciscans (The Path of Franciscan Spirituality) (reference) Franciscans Under Fire: Twenty Nuns, a Girl and a Dog: The Story of the Sisters of Saint Francis of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin (reference) The Franciscans (Religious Order Series, Vol 2) (reference) In Solitude and Dialogue: Contemporary Franciscans Theologize (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: FRANCISCANS

"FRANCISCANS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "FRANCISCANS" is used about 24 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)

Expression: FRANCISCANS

Misspellings: FRANCISCANS

Misspellings
	"FRANCISCANS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Francesconi, franciscanas, franciscas, Franciscus, franscisca. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: FRANCISCANS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-f-i-n-n-r-s-s"
	-2 letters: safranins.
	-3 letters: acrasins, safranin.
	-4 letters: acrasin, arnicas, ascaris, cancans, carcass, carinas, farinas, fascias, safaris.
	-5 letters: acinar, arnica, cairns, cancan, cannas, carina, cassia, crania, crasis, crissa, facias, farina, fascia, fracas, francs, nairas, safari, sansar, sarans, sarins, scarfs, siccan.
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Alternative Orthography: FRANCISCANS

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 52 41 4E 43 49 53 43 41 4E 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-. .-. .- -. -.-. .. ... -.-. .- -. ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01010010 01000001 01001110 01000011 01001001 01010011 01000011 01000001 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#82 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#73 &#83 &#67 &#65 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0052 0041 004E 0043 0049 0053 0043 0041 004E 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	95.83%	23	72,767
Noun (proper)	4.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	24	N/A

FRANCISCANS

Specialty Definition: FRANCISCANS

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