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Nihil Obstat

Definitions: Nihil Obstat

Nihil Obstat

Noun

1. The phrase used by the official censor of the Roman Catholic Church to say that a publication has been examined and contains nothing offensive to the Church.

2. Authoritative approval.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Commercial Usage: Nihil Obstat

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nihil Obstat

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

nihil obstat

4
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Anagrams: Nihil Obstat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-i-l-n-o-s-t-t"

-2 letters: biathlons, libations, siltation, tithonias.

-3 letters: biathlon, botanist, hobnails, inhabits, libation, ostinati, sibilant, tithonia.

-4 letters: abolish, absinth, aiblins, albinos, altoist, bastion, biotins, bonitas, hobnail, inhabit, isobath, latinos, lattins, liaison, lithias, oblasti, obtains, station, stibial, tahinis, talions, titians.

-5 letters: ablins, aiolis, albino, alibis, aloins, banish, basion, bathos, batons, bialis, binits, bionts, biotas, biotin, blains, blinis, bloats, bonita, bonsai, habits, holist, instal, instil, isatin, lathis, latino, latish, lattin, lithia, lithos, lotahs, nihils, oblast, obtain, otitis, santol, shanti, stotin, tahini, tahsil, taints, talion, talons, tanist, thiols, tibial, tibias, tilths, titans, titian, tolans, tonish, tonsil, totals.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-h-i-i-l-n-o-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: habilitations.

 

+4 letters: rehabilitations.

 

+5 letters: alphabetizations, biosynthetically, untouchabilities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Nihil Obstat


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

4E 69 68 69 6C      4F 62 73 74 61 74

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

    

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

01001110 01101001 01101000 01101001 01101100 00100000 01001111 01100010 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#105 &#104 &#105 &#108 &#32 &#79 &#98 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0069 0068 0069 006C      004F 0062 0073 0074 0061 0074

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

48757475782496885866786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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