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OBSERVANTINE

Definition: OBSERVANTINE

OBSERVANTINE

Noun

1. One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Observantine \Ob`ser*van"tine\, noun. [Fr. observantin.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "OBSERVANTINE"

Words rhyming with "OBSERVANTINE" (pronounced 'Ob`ser*van"tine'): Acolyctine, Adamantine, Amethystine, Asbestine, Balaustine, Chryselephantine, Clandestine, elephantine, Gigantine, Legantine, Osteodentine, Paytine, Plicidentine, Polycystine, Pontine, Predestine, Pristine, Procrastine, Quartine, Quintine, Sentine, Sestine, Sistine, Sittine, Vasodentine. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OBSERVANTINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: enervations, inobservant, venerations.

-2 letters: enervation, innervates, nervations, veneration, vernations.

-3 letters: anointers, bannerets, bannister, baritones, bevatrons, branniest, innervate, innovates, inventers, inventors, invertase, nervation, observant, obtainers, overbeats, overbites, reanoints, reinvents, renovates, reobtains, revenants, sanbenito, taborines, tanneries, tensioner, venations, venetians, vernation.

-4 letters: abortive, absenter, anointer, anserine, antisnob, arenites, arsenite, aversion, banister, banneret, baritone, barniest, baronets, baronies, baronnes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OBSERVANTINE


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

4F 42 53 45 52 56 41 4E 54 49 4E 45

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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