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Priest-ridden

Definition: Priest-ridden

Priest-ridden

Adjective

1. Ruled by or oppressed by a priest.

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

Date "priest-ridden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)


Specialty Definition: Priest-ridden

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

PRIEST-RIDDEN. Governed by a priest, or priests. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Synonyms within Context: Priest-ridden

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

Churchdom

Adjective: ecclesiastical, ecclesiological; clerical, sacerdotal, priestly, prelatical, pastoral, ministerial, capitular, theocratic; hierarchical, archiepiscopal; episcopal, episcopalian; canonical; monastic, monachal; monkish; abbatial, abbatical; Anglican; pontifical, papal, apostolic, Roman, Popish; ultramontane, priest-ridden.

Impiety

Bigoted, fanatical; priest-ridden.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Priest-ridden

Language Translations for "priest-ridden"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

教士乘坐. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

성직자 타". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iest-riddenpray

   

Vietnamese 

  

bị bọn thầy tu khống chế. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Priest-ridden"

Words rhyming with "priest-ridden" (pronounced 'Priest"-rid`den'): Crow-trodden, hag-ridden, Muckmidden. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Priest-ridden

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-i-i-n-p-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: disinterred.

-2 letters: printeries, pteridines, reinspired, rinderpest.

-3 letters: dendrites, president, pteridine, reinspire, reprinted, spiderier.

-4 letters: dendrite, deriders, despited, destined, destrier, disinter, inditers, inedited, inserted, inserter, inspired, inspirer, interred, intrepid, nerdiest, niteries, nitrided, nitrides, pineries, preedits, prerinse, presided, presider, pretends, priested, printers, pristine, reinsert, reinters, rentiers, repiners, reprints, reprised, resident, respired, respited, ripeners, riptides, siderite, sintered.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Priest-ridden


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

50 72 69 65 73 74 2D 72 69 64 64 65 6E

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

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

01010000 01110010 01101001 01100101 01110011 01110100 00101101 01110010 01101001 01100100 01100100 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#105 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#45 &#114 &#105 &#100 &#100 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0069 0065 0073 0074 002D 0072 0069 0064 0064 0065 006E

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

50847571858615847570707180

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INDEX

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


  

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