Justinian

Definition: Justinian

Justinian

Noun

1. Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman Law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565).

Date "Justinian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Justinian

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Justinian The English Justinian. Edward I. (1239, 1272-1307). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Justinian

Synonyms: Justinian I (n), Justinian the Great (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Justinian

English words defined with "Justinian": Authentics ♦ Belisarius ♦ civil law ♦ jus civile, Justinian code, Justinian I, Justinian the Great ♦ Pandect ♦ Roman law. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Justinian": Fairy ♦ Greens of Constantinople ♦ Institutes ♦ Lamp of the Law ♦ Paulicians ♦ Ring Posies ♦ Seven Churches of Asia ♦ Venus of Cnidus. (references)

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Modern Usage: Justinian

Domain	Usage
Clever	Safety of the state is the highest law. (references; author: Justinian)
Movie/TV Titles	Justinian and Theodora (1910)
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Commercial Usage: Justinian

Domain	Title
Books	Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian (reference) Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire: From Augustus to Justinian (reference) History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian (Volume 2) (reference) Justinian (reference) The Roman Law of Slavery: The Condition of the Slave in Private Law from Augustus to Justinian (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Justinian

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Photo Album: Justinian

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Statues and sculpture over the door of the gallery of House chamber, U.S. Capitol. Justinian medallion I. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Justinian

Author	Quotation
Justinian	Safety of the state is the highest law.
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Use in Literature: Justinian

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Let Justinian be the male, and festivity the female.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Justinian

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for "Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge" a fairy, and it was universally respected.
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Usage Frequency: Justinian

"Justinian" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Justinian" is used about 82 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)	100%	82	36,594

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Expressions: Justinian

Expressions using "Justinian": justinian code ♦ Justinian I ♦ Justinian the Great. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Justinian

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
justinian	39
code of justinian	17
emperor justinian	10
justinian and theodora	6
justinian the great	6
justinian i	5
attendant emperor his justinian	3
byzantine emperor justinian	3
plague and justinian	2
justinian law	2
justinian picture	2
courtier emperor justinian	2
justinian mosaic	2
hail caesar vol vi justinian	2
bible justinian	2
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Rhyming with "Justinian"

Words rhyming with "Justinian" (pronounced 'Jus*tin"i*an'): Abderian, Absinthian, Academian, Academician, Acadian, Acanthopterygian, Acaridan, Achean, Achillean, Acoustician, Acritan, Acroceraunian, Acropolitan, Adamantean, Adessenarian, Adonean, Adrian, AEgean, AEolian, AEonian, AEsculapian, AEsthetican, Ahriman, Airman, Airwoman, Alabastrian, Alan, Alban, Albanian, Albigensian, Aldebaran, Alderman, Alexandrian, Algerian, Algonkian, Algonquian, Alkoran, Alloxan, Almsman, Alogian, Alongshoreman, Alphabetarian, Altitudinarian, Amatorian, Amazonian, Amebean, Ametabolian, Amoebean, Amoebian, Amphigean. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Justinian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-i-j-n-n-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: isatin, jaunts, juntas, ninjas, suntan.
	-4 letters: antis, aunts, intis, jaunt, jinni, jinns, junta, ninja, saint, satin, stain, suint, sunna, tains, tunas, unais, units.
	-5 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, anus, aunt, inia, inns, inti, jinn, jins, just, juts, nans, nisi, nits, nuns, nuts, sain, sati, snit, stun, suit, sunn, tain, tans, taus, tins.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-i-j-n-n-s-t-u"
	+5 letters: nonjusticiable.
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