Crossword-Solution: BOSWELLIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Boswellian | a. | Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson. |
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| Like a famous biographer. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEMECA
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eruption
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Sentences with BOSWELLIAN (5)
There is but one other instance that I know in English literature of a man who had the Boswellian gift to the full, but who never had complete scope, and that was Hogg.
This conjecture is confirmed by what we learn from Lenz, who in 1842 saw a good deal of Chopin, and thanks to his Boswellian inquisitiveness, persistence, and forwardness, made himself acquainted with a number of interesting facts.
Nothing could be more Boswellian than the manner in which the subject is treated, and the piece is full of personal allusions.
Johnson had there been no Boswell; and to this question I do not hesitate to answer that we should have loved him as much as ever, and that there would still have been a mass of material with the true Boswellian flavour.
Who but he would have treasured up every word of that curious meeting in April 1778, between Johnson and his unimportant old friend Edwards, the man who said that he had tried to be a philosopher, but "cheerfulness was always breaking in"? Yet it is not only one of the most Boswellian but one of the very best things in the whole book.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1969).