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MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY

Definition: MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY

MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY

1. (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who believe that it is a part of religious duty to maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as conductive to good health, good morals, and right feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes. (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY

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Literature

Muscular Christianity Healthy or strong-minded religion, which braces a man to fight the battle of life bravely and manfully. This expression has been erroneously attributed to Charles Kingsley. (See his Life, ii. 74, 75.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-h-i-i-i-l-m-n-r-r-s-s-t-t-u-u-y"

-5 letters: circumstantials.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY


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

4D 55 53 43 55 4C 41 52      43 48 52 49 53 54 49 41 4E 49 54 59

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

    

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

01001101 01010101 01010011 01000011 01010101 01001100 01000001 01010010 00100000 01000011 01001000 01010010 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000001 01001110 01001001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0055 0053 0043 0055 004C 0041 0052      0043 0048 0052 0049 0053 0054 0049 0041 004E 0049 0054 0059

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

47555337554635522374252435354433548435459

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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