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HESYCHAST

Definition: HESYCHAST

HESYCHAST

Noun

1. One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Hesychast \Hes"y*chast\, noun. [Greek expression hermit, from to be still or quiet, from still, calm.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Commercial Usage: HESYCHAST

DomainTitle

Books

  • Elder Zosima : Hesychast of Siberia (reference)

  • Monastic Wisdom: The Letters of Elder Joseph the Hesychast (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "HESYCHAST"

Words rhyming with "HESYCHAST" (pronounced 'Hes"y*chast'): Chast. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HESYCHAST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-h-s-s-t-y"

-2 letters: chetahs, ecstasy, hatches, sachets, scathes, scythes, sheaths.

-3 letters: cashes, castes, cestas, chases, chasse, chaste, cheats, chests, chesty, chetah, cheths, hashes, hastes, heaths, heathy, sachet, sayest, scathe, scythe, sheath, shyest, taches, yachts, yeasts.

-4 letters: aches, ashes, asset, cases, caste, casts, cates, cesta, chase, chats, chays, cheat, chess, chest, cheth, cysts, easts, essay, haets, haste.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-h-s-s-t-y"
 

+3 letters: bathyscaphes.

 

+4 letters: psychasthenia, psychasthenic, psychopathies.

 

+5 letters: chrysanthemums, psychasthenias, psychasthenics.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HESYCHAST


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

48 45 53 59 43 48 41 53 54

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)

01001000 01000101 01010011 01011001 01000011 01001000 01000001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#83 &#89 &#67 &#72 &#65 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0053 0059 0043 0048 0041 0053 0054

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

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

423953593742355354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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