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PORT-ROYALIST

Definition: PORT-ROYALIST

PORT-ROYALIST

Noun

1. One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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


Rhyming with "PORT-ROYALIST"

Words rhyming with "PORT-ROYALIST" (pronounced 'Port-roy"al*ist'): Abacist, Abaist, Abiogenist, Abolitionist, Abortionist, Absist, Abstractionist, Academist, Accompanist, Accordionist, Acephalist, Acolothist, Acolythist, Acosmist, Acquist, Actualist, Adeptist, Adiaphorist, Adonist, Adoptionist, Adventist, Aerologist, Aeroplanist, Affectationist, Agamist, Agist, Agonist, Agrammatist, Agricolist, Agriculturalist, Agriculturist, Agriologist, Agronomist, Agrostologist, Aladinist, Alarmist, Alchemist, Alcoranist, Algebraist, Algologist, Alienist, Alkoranist, Allegorist, Allodialist, Allopathist, Alopecist, Alpinist, Altarist, Altruist, Ambitionist. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PORT-ROYALIST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-l-o-o-p-r-r-s-t-t-y"

-3 letters: portraits, posttrial, protostar, spoliator, troopials.

-4 letters: airports, artistry, isolator, isotropy, ostiolar, patriots, polarity, porosity, portrait, portrays, postoral, postriot, potatory, pyrostat, rotators, rotatory, royalist, solitary, sorority, sportily, spottily, stolport, straitly, talipots, taproots, torosity, traitors, troopial.

-5 letters: airport, airpost, altoist, apostil, arroyos, isotopy, ooralis, oralist, orality, orators, oratory, ostiary, parlors, parrots, parroty, patriot, patrols, poloist.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-o-o-p-r-r-s-t-t-y"
 

+5 letters: postrevolutionary.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PORT-ROYALIST


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

50 4F 52 54 2D 52 4F 59 41 4C 49 53 54

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

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

01010000 01001111 01010010 01010100 00101101 01010010 01001111 01011001 01000001 01001100 01001001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#45 &#82 &#79 &#89 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0052 0054 002D 0052 004F 0059 0041 004C 0049 0053 0054

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

50495254155249593546435354

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INDEX

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


  

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