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Theosophical

Definition: Theosophical

Theosophical

Adjective

1. Of or relating to theosophy; "theosophical writings".

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

Date "theosophical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)


Crosswords: Theosophical

English words defined with "theosophical": Theosophic, Theosophistical. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Theosophical

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Short History of the Theosophical Society (reference)

  • Expanded Theosophical Knowledge (1919) (reference)

  • Hpb: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky, Founder of the Modern Theosophical Movement (reference)

  • Initiates of the Theosophical Masters (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions) (reference)

  • Occult Glossary: A Compendium of Oriental and Theosophical Terms (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Photo Album: Theosophical

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Raja Yoga Academy and Aryan Memorial Temple at the International Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma, Calif.Credit: Library of Congress.

A group of young children, Raja-Yoga students, dressed in white and wearing flower garlands in their hair and around their necks, at the International Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma, Calif.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Theosophical

"Theosophical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Theosophical" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)88.89%8124,375
Noun (proper)11.11%1339,140
                    Total100.00%9N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Theosophical

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "theosophical": quasi-theosophical.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Theosophical

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

  theosophical society

35

  theosophical

6

  press theosophical university

2

  house publishing theosophical

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Theosophical

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

Bulgarian 

  

теософичен. (various references)

   

French

  

ST (Theosophical Society), Société théosophique (Theosophical Society). (various references)

   

German

  

theosophischen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θεοσοφικόσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

teozófiai. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eosophicalthay

   

Russian 

  

теософский (theosophic). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

teosofik (theosophic). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Theosophical

Derivations

Words beginning with "theosophical": theosophically. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Theosophical

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-h-i-l-o-o-p-s-t"

-3 letters: apostolic, helicopts, isophotal, poachiest, potlaches, scapolite, sociopath.

-4 letters: achiotes, capitols, chaplets, cheapish, cholates, coaliest, coalpits, copilots, ectopias, eschalot, ethicals, haplites, hatchels, helicopt, helistop, hepatics, hootches, hoplites, hospital, isophote, isopleth, loopiest, oothecal, pastiche, phthalic, pistache, poetical, polecats, posthole, postiche, potholes, potiches, potlache, scotopia, septical, societal, spoliate, tapholes, tieclasp.

-5 letters: achiest, achiote, aitches, aloetic, aphetic.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-h-i-l-o-o-p-s-t"
 

+2 letters: theosophically.

 

+4 letters: ophthalmoscopies.

 

+5 letters: psychopathologies, spectroheliograph.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Theosophical


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

54 68 65 6F 73 6F 70 68 69 63 61 6C

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010100 01101000 01100101 01101111 01110011 01101111 01110000 01101000 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#104 &#101 &#111 &#115 &#111 &#112 &#104 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0068 0065 006F 0073 006F 0070 0068 0069 0063 0061 006C

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

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

547471818581827475696778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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