Crossword-Solution: CARMELITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Carmelite | a. | Alt. of Carmelin |
| Carmelite | n. | A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar. |
| Carmelite | n. | A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “CARMELITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FRIAR, white | 1 answer |
| Relaxed-sounding, select member of order | 1 answer |
| St. Teresa was one | 1 answer |
| Teresian | 1 answer |
| White Friar | 4 answers |
| MONKS, order of | 12 answers |
| MONASTIC order | 13 answers |
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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
CAZMEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CARMELITE (5)
Jonathan Foster, in the Bohn Library):-- “The Carmelite monk, Fra Filippo di Tommaso Lippi (1412-1469) *1* was born at Florence in a bye-street called Ardiglione, under the Canto alla Cuculia, and behind the convent of the Carmelites.
Parisienne now as ever, she had not laid coquetry aside when she threw off worldly adornments for the veil and the Carmelite’s coarse serge.
People swarmed more than you can see on a feast-day round the miraculous Holy Image in the yard of the Carmelite Convent down in the plains where, before he left his home, he drove his mother in a wooden cart--a pious old woman who wanted to offer prayers and make a vow for his safety.
One of the earliest of these appeared when Pope Alexander I, according to tradition, ordained that holy water should be kept in churches and bedchambers to drive away devils.(230) Another safeguard was found in relics, and of similar efficacy were the so-called "conception billets" sold by the Carmelite monks.
Now, as I was busy tending the wounded, in the skirmish three days agone, this Carmelite was about the same duty for those of his party.
Quotes with CARMELITE (3)
All that evening he talked to the Candle of Arras, in a low confidential tone. When you get down to it, he thought, there's not much difference between politics and sex; it's all aboutpower. He didn't suppose he was the first person in the world to make this observation. It's a question of seduction, and how fast and cheap you can effect it: if Camille, he thought, approximates to one of those little milliners who can't make ends meet - in other words, an absolute pushover - …
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1987–1993).