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Crosswords: ODOUR OF SANCTITY |
| Specialty definitions using "ODOUR OF SANCTITY": Jamambuxes. (references) |
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Literature | Odour of Sanctity (In the). The Catholics tell us that good persons die in the "odour of sanctity;" and there is a certain truth in the phrase, for, when one honoured by the Church dies, it is not unusual to perfume the room with incense, and sometimes to embalm the body. Homer tells us (Iliad, xxiii.) that Hector's body was washed with rose-water. In Egypt the dead are washed with rose-water and perfumed with incense (Maillet: Letters, x. p. 88). Herodotos says the same thing (History, ii. 86-90). When the wicked and those hated die, no such care is taken of them. "In both the Greek and Western Church incense is used, and the aroma of these consecrated oils follows the believer from birth to death."- Nineteenth Century: April, 1894, p. 584. The Catholic notion that priests bear about with them an odour of sanctity may be explained in a similar manner: they are so constantly present when the censers diffuse sweet odour, that their clothes and skin smell of the incense. Shakespeare has a strong passage on the disodour of impiety. Antiochus and his daughter, whose wickedness abounded, were killed by lightning, and the poet says:- "A fire from heaven came and shrivelled up Their bodies, e'en to loathing; for they so stunk That all those eyes adored them ere their fall Scorned now their hand should give them burial." Pericles, Prince of Tyre. ii. 4. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Language | Translations for "ODOUR OF SANCTITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Thai | บรรยากาศที่อบอวล"้วยสิ่งศัก"ิ์สิทธิ์หรือพระเจ้ามากเกินไป. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-f-i-n-o-o-o-r-s-t-t-u-y" | |
-4 letters: corotations. | |
-5 letters: candytufts, cartoonist, corotation, furcations, orotundity, syndicator. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 44 4F 55 52 4F 46 53 41 4E 43 54 49 54 59 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01000100 01001111 01010101 01010010 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01010011 01000001 01001110 01000011 01010100 01001001 01010100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O D O U R   O F   S A N C T I T Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0044 004F 0055 0052 004F 0046 0053 0041 004E 0043 0054 0049 0054 0059 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49384955522494025335483754435459 |
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