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Definition: LECTIONARY |
LECTIONARYNoun1. A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service. |
Etymology: Lectionary \Lec"tion*a*ry\, noun; plural -ries. [from Late Latin expression lectionarium, lectionarius compare to the French expression lectionnaire.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: LECTIONARY |
| English words defined with "LECTIONARY": -ries. (references) |
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Books |
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Periodicals |
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| "LECTIONARY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "LECTIONARY" is used about 4 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) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"LECTIONARY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: locutionary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "LECTIONARY" (pronounced 'Lec"tion*a*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 "a-c-e-i-l-n-o-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: certainly. | |
-2 letters: acrolein, anoretic, caryotin, cilantro, clarinet, colinear, contrail, creation, cryolite, enactory, erotical, interlay, literacy, loricate, oriental, ornately, reaction, relation. | |
-3 letters: acolyte, aconite, acyloin, aileron, alienor, aloetic, anolyte, anticly, article, calorie, caloyer, cariole, carline, carotin, central, ceratin, certain, clarion, clarity, clayier, coalier, cointer, corneal, cornily, creatin, cyanite, elation, elytron, enactor, erotica, inertly, inlayer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-o-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: colinearity. | |
+2 letters: collinearity, coordinately, elocutionary, entropically, neurotically. | |
+3 letters: acrylonitrile, complimentary, considerately, constrainedly, contrastively, documentarily, lycanthropies, nonhysterical, pyrotechnical. | |
+4 letters: acrylonitriles, aeronautically, cholestyramine, coevolutionary, concentrically, conservatively, contemporarily, directionality, egocentrically, electrodynamic, electronically, enforceability, estrogenically, geocentrically, iatrogenically, isentropically, laryngectomies, manometrically, metronomically, noncrystalline, nonsymmetrical, overanalytical, pertinaciously, reconciliatory. | |
+5 letters: bidirectionally, cholestyramines, commiseratingly, complementarily, complementarity, complimentarily, controversially, corynebacterial, countercyclical, counterrallying, decarboxylating, decarboxylation, econometrically, electroanalysis, electrodynamics, hyperfunctional, inconsiderately, laryngectomized, monocrystalline, necromantically, neuropathically, oxytetracycline, polycrystalline, pyrotechnically, recognizability, reconcilability, thermodynamical, uncomplimentary, uncopyrightable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 43 54 49 4F 4E 41 52 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . -.-. - .. --- -. .- .-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 01000001 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E C T I O N A R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 0043 0054 0049 004F 004E 0041 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)46393754434948355259 |
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