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SACRILEGIST

Definition: SACRILEGIST

SACRILEGIST

Noun

1. One guilty of sacrilege.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SACRILEGIST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Synonyms within Context: SACRILEGIST

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Impiety

Sinner; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite; (dissembler); Tartufe, Mawworm.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: SACRILEGIST

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

Arabic 

  

‏خادم الكنيسة, ‏المدنس. (various references)

   

French

  

sacrilégiste. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acrilegistsay.(various references)

   

Thai

  

ผู้ลบหลู่ศาสนา. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người phạm thánh, người báng bổ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SACRILEGIST"

Words rhyming with "SACRILEGIST" (pronounced 'Sac"ri*le`gist'): Dramaturgist, metallurgist. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SACRILEGIST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-l-r-s-s-t"

-2 letters: clarities, eristical, glairiest, grisliest, realistic, serialist, silicates.

-3 letters: agrestic, articles, cigarets, ciliates, classier, elastics, ergastic, eristics, gestical, glaciers, glacises, glariest, glassier, glisters, graciles, gracilis, gristles, laicises, realists, recitals, saltiers, saltires, satirise, scaliest, scariest, scarlets, silicate, sterical, strigils.

-4 letters: actress, ageists, aiglets, aigrets, airiest, airless, article, artless, ascites, cagiest, carless, cartels, casters, castles, cigaret, ciliate, citrals, clarets, claries, classer, crestal, crissal, cristae, eclairs, ectasis, elastic, elicits, eristic, gaiters, garlics, gassier, gasters, gastric, girlies, glacier, glaires, glassie, glister, gracile, grilses, gristle, italics, laciest, laicise, laities, largess, largest, lasters, latices, legists, liaises, ligases, ligates, listers, raciest, racists, realist, recasts, recital, relicts, relists, resails, retails, sacrist, sagiest, sailers, salters, saltier, salties, saltire, satires, satiric, scalers, scalier, scarlet, scleras, seagirt, serails, serials, silages, silesia, silicas, siltier, slaters, slatier, slicers, stagers, stagier, stearic, strigil, tailers, tigress, tragics, triages.

-5 letters: ageist, agists, aglets, aiglet, aigret, airest, aisles, alerts, alters, argils, argles, ariels, arises, artels, assert, asters, atelic, cagers, cagier, caress, carets, caries, carles, carses, cartel, cartes, caster, castes, castle, caters, cerias, cestas, cigars, citers, cities, citral, claret, clasts, clears, cleats, crases, crasis, crates, crests, crises, crisis, crissa, crista, eclair, eclats, elicit, ericas, escars, estral, gaiter, garlic, gaslit, gasser, gaster, gelati, gestic, girlie, glaces, glacis, glaire, glairs, glares, graces, grails, grates, gratis, greats, grilse, grists, iatric, iciest, irises, islets, istles, italic, lacers, lacier, lagers, larges, lasers, lassie, laster, leasts, legist, legits, liaise, ligase, ligate, ligers, lister, liters, litres, racist, raises, rassle, ratels, reacts, recast, rectal, regilt, relics, relict, relist, resail, resist, retags, retail, retial, rictal, sagest, sagier, saices, sailer, salter, saltie, sarges, satire, scaler, scales, scares, scarts, sclera, scrags, scries, seracs, serail, serais, serial, sialic, siesta, sigils, silage, silica, sister, sistra, sitars, slater, slates, slicer, slices, sliest, stager, stages, staigs, stairs, staler, stales, stares, steals, stelai, stelar, stelic, steric, stiles, striae, tailer, talers, targes, tassel, tassie, terais, tergal, teslas, ticals, tigers, tilers, traces, tragic, trails, triacs, triage, trials, trices.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-l-r-s-s-t"
 

+4 letters: bacteriologists, synergistically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SACRILEGIST


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

53 41 43 52 49 4C 45 47 49 53 54

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)

01010011 01000001 01000011 01010010 01001001 01001100 01000101 01000111 01001001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#65 &#67 &#82 &#73 &#76 &#69 &#71 &#73 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0041 0043 0052 0049 004C 0045 0047 0049 0053 0054

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

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

5335375243463941435354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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