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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Kiss the Book After taking a legal oath, we are commanded to kiss the book, which in our English courts is the New Testament, except when Jews "are sworn in." This is the kiss of confirmation or promise to act in accordance with the words of the oath (Moravians and Quakers are not required to take legal oaths). The kiss, in this case, is a public acknowledgment that you adore the deity whose book you kiss, as a worshipper. It is now permitted to affirm, if persons like to do so. Mr. Bradlaugh refused to take an oath, and after some years of contention the law was altered. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affirmation | Depose, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear; make oath, take one's oath; make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an affidavit; take one's Bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere vero; swear till one is black in the face, swear till one is blue in the face, swear till all's blue; be sworn, call Heaven to witness; vouch, warrant, certify, assure, swear by bell book and candle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "KISS THE BOOK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | ορκίζομαι (swear, swore, sworn, take an oath, vow). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | eskü alatt vall (to attest, to depose, to kiss the book, to swear to). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | isskay ethay ookbay целовать библию при принесении присяги в суде. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-h-i-k-k-o-o-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: boskiest, hookiest, kiboshes, kookiest. | |
-4 letters: bookies, bookish, booties, boskets, bothies, hokiest, hookies, ketosis, kishkes, oboists, soothes. | |
-5 letters: bekiss, besots, betook, bhoots, boites, bookie, boosts, booths, bootie, boshes, bosket, heists, hoboes, hoises, hoists, kibosh, kiosks, kishke, kithes, kookie, oboist, otiose, sheiks, shiest, shikse, shooks, shoots, shotes, shtiks, skites, sobeit, soothe, sooths, stokes, stooks, thesis. | |
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