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NESTORIAN

Definitions: NESTORIAN

NESTORIAN

Adjective

1. Relating to, or resembling, Nestor, the aged warior and counselor mentioned by Homer; hence, wise; experienced; aged; as, Nestorian caution.

2. Of or relating to the Nestorians.

Noun

1. An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "NESTORIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

 

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Crosswords: NESTORIAN

English words defined with "NESTORIAN": ChaldeanEutychianNestorianism. (references)

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Commercial Usage: NESTORIAN

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Nestorian Collection of Christological Texts: 1: Volume 1, Syriac Texts : Syriac Texts (reference)

  • A Study of the History of Nestorian Christianity in China and Its Literature in Chinese: Together With a New English Translation of the Dunhuang Nestorian Documents (European University Studies, Asian and African Studies, 27) (reference)

  • My Nestorian Adventure in China (reference)

  • Nestorian and Their Rituals (reference)

  • Nestorian Monument of Hsi-An Fu in Shen-Hsi, China (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: NESTORIAN

"NESTORIAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NESTORIAN" is used about 13 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1397,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NESTORIAN

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

nestorian

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: NESTORIAN

Language Translations for "NESTORIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

ζ™―ζ•™εΎ' . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

けいきょうと. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

estoriannay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NESTORIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: anointers, reanoints.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-n-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: anointer, enations, entrains, intoners, notaries, raisonne, reanoint, resonant, senorita, sonatine, ternions.

-2 letters: anestri, anoints, antsier, aroints, atoners, atonies, enation, entrain, erasion, inanest, insaner, insnare, interns, intoner, intones, introns, nastier, nations, natrons, nonarts, norites, oestrin, onanist, orients, ratines, rations, retains, retinas, retsina, senator, stainer, stanine, stearin, stonier, tanners, tension, ternion, tinners, tonners, treason.

-3 letters: airest, anenst, anions, anoint, antres, aorist, ariose, arisen, aristo, aroint, arseno, arsine, arsino, astern, atoner, atones, eonian, estrin, inaner, inanes, inerts, innate, inners, insane, insert, instar, intern, inters, intone, intron, intros, irones, narine, nasion, nation, natron, nestor, niters, nitons, nitres, nitros, nonart, nonets, norias, norite, nosier, noters, oaters, orates, orient, ornate, ratine, ration, ratios, reason, renins, retain, retina, santir, satire, satori, senior, sennit, senora, sienna, sinner, sinter, sonant, sonnet, sortie, sterna, stoner, strain, striae, tanner, tenias, tennis, tenons, tenors, tensor, terais, tineas, tinner, tisane, toners, tonier, tonner, tonnes, tories, trains, triens, trines, triose, tronas, trones.

-4 letters: aeons, airns, airts, anent, anion, anise, antes, antis, antre, arise, arose, arson, aster, astir, atone, earns, entia, eosin, etnas, inane, inert, inner, inset, inter, intro, iotas, irate, irone, irons, nares, naris, nates, nears, neats, neist, neons, nerts, nines, niter, nites, niton, nitre, nitro, noirs, noise, nonas, nones, nonet, noria, noris, noter, notes, oaten, oater, onset, orate, ornis, osier, ostia, rains, raise, ranis, rants, rates, ratio, ratos, reins, renin, rents, resin, retia, riant, rinse, riots, risen, rites, roans, roast, roset, rosin, rotas, rotes, rotis, saint, saner, santo, sarin, satin, senna, senor, senti, serai, serin, seton, siren, sitar, snare, snore, snort, sonar, stain, stair, stane, stare, stein, steno, stern, stoae, stoai, stone, store, stria, tains, tares, tarns, taros, tarsi, tears, tenia, tenon, tenor, terai, terns, tiers, tinea, tines, tires, tiros, toeas, toner, tones, tonne, toras, tores, torse, torsi, train, trans, tries, trine, trios, trois, trona, trone.

-5 letters: aeon, aero, ains, airn, airs, airt, aits, anes, anis, anon, ante, anti, ants, ares, arse, arts, ates, earn, ears, east, eats, eons, eras, erns, eros, erst, etas, etna, inns, inro, into, ions, iota, ires, iron, nans, naoi, naos, near, neat, neon, nest, nets, nine, nite, nits, noes, noir, nona, none, nori, nose, nota, note, oars, oast, oats, ones, ores, orts, osar, rain, rani, rant, rase, rate, rato, rats, rein, reis, rent, rest, rets, rias, rins, riot, rise, rite, roan, roes, rose, rota, rote, roti, rots, sain, sane, sari, sate, sati, sear, seat, sent, sera, seta, sine, sire, site, snit, snot, soar, sone, sora, sore, sori, sorn, sort, star, stir, stoa, tain.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-n-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: containers, crenations, nervations, resonating, senatorian, stentorian, vernations.

 

+2 letters: ancestoring, antimoderns, concertinas, constrained, enantiomers, enervations, enunciators, generations, herniations, inobservant, inseminator, insertional, intravenous, mensuration, nitrogenase, nitrosamine, numerations, ordainments, personating, personation, quaternions, renominates, renovations, resignation, supernation, transection, venerations.

 

+3 letters: alternations, aminopterins, anacreontics, anticonsumer, antiestrogen, antiheroines, antineutrons, centimorgans, consecrating, consecration, conservation, containerise, contrariness, contrivances, conversation, counterstain, crenelations, crenulations, cybernations, denervations, denigrations, denominators, enamorations, encrustation, enterokinase, enumerations, exonerations, fenestration, frontiersman, germinations, hibernations, ignorantness, incinerators, inebriations, innervations, inseminators, integrations, interactions, interrobangs, interstation, intolerances, itinerations, menstruation, mensurations, mountaineers, neurulations, nitrogenases, nitrosamines, nonassertive, nonliterates, nonrealistic, nonrelatives, nonresistant, nonsectarian, nonsteroidal, nonstrategic, orientations, penetrations, perennations, personations, prenominates, presentation, rationalness, reanimations, recantations, recombinants, reinflations, resignations, sternutation, strontianite, supernations, terminations, transections, transfection, transoceanic, transpontine, trepanations.

 

+4 letters: anticonsumers, antielectrons, antiestrogens, antimodernist, antineutrinos, antipersonnel, antiphonaries, antirecession, cogenerations, congregations, consecrations, conservations, consideration, consternating, consternation, constrainedly, containerised, containerises, containerizes, containerless, containership, conversations, counterstains, crenellations, degenerations, demonstrating, demonstration, denaturations, deracinations, emarginations, enantiomorphs, encrustations, energizations, enterokinases, eternizations, exenterations, fenestrations, fermentations, functionaries, housetraining, impersonating, impersonation, impregnations, incinerations, inconsiderate, indoctrinates, insubordinate, intenerations, interpersonal, intrapersonal, intravenouses, intravenously, introgressant, menstruations, midafternoons, modernisation, momentariness, nationalizers, nitromethanes, nonabsorptive, nonarchitects, nonhysterical, nonmainstream, nonmonetarist, nonnarratives, nonresistance, nonresistants, normativeness, octogenarians, overstraining, presentations, questionnaire, reannexations, refoundations, regenerations, reinfestation, rejuvenations, remonstrating, remonstration, remunerations, renaturations, renominations, renunciations, replantations, retranslation, septentrional, sternutations, strontianites, subgeneration, subventionary, supernational, transfections, transgression, trephinations, unconstrained, undercoatings, unimportances, voluntariness.

 

+5 letters: aggiornamentos, anthraquinones, antiaggression, anticensorship, antidepression, antimodernists, antirecessions, antisubversion, apportionments, argumentations, arrondissement, commensuration, concentrations, confederations, conservational, conservatizing, considerations, consternations, consuetudinary, containerising, containerports, containerships, contraceptions, contrarinesses, contraventions, conversational, convertiplanes, coordinateness, cotransferring, counteractions, countershading, counterstained, counterstating, decarbonations, deconsecrating, deconsecration, defenestration, defibrinations, degranulations, demonstrations, determinations, disintegration, disorientating, disorientation, documentarians, ethnohistorian, exterminations, fragmentations, frequentations, generalisation, germanizations, hydrogenations, ignorantnesses, impersonations, incarcerations, incommensurate, indemonstrable, indemonstrably, inordinateness, insubordinates, insurmountable, insurrectional, integrationist, intercalations, intercessional, internationals, interpolations, interrelations, interrogations, intersectional, intolerantness, intracutaneous, introgressants, linearizations, macronutrients, misorientation, modernisations, modernizations, neuroanatomies, neuroanatomist, noncrystalline, nonderivatives, nonlinearities, nonmonetarists, nonregulations, nonresidential, nonresistances, nonsegregation, nonsymmetrical, nonvegetarians, ornamentations, overattentions, overinflations, peregrinations, predestination, predominations, prenominations, preordainments, preordinations, presentational, questionnaires, rationalnesses, reappointments, recombinations, reconsecrating, reconsecration, recontaminates, recriminations, reexaminations, regimentations, reincarnations, reinfestations, reinnervations, reinoculations, reinstallation, reintegrations, remonstrations, renationalizes, renegotiations, reorientations, representation, repristination, repunctuations, retransforming, retranslations, retransmission, reunifications, revaccinations, stonemasonries, subgenerations, superannuation, tenderizations, transgressions, transitoriness, triamcinolones, tridimensional, vernalizations, westernisation, westernization, winterizations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NESTORIAN


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

4E 45 53 54 4F 52 49 41 4E

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)

01001110 01000101 01010011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0053 0054 004F 0052 0049 0041 004E

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

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

483953544952433548

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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