Crossword-Solution: DEIPNOSOPHIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deipnosophist | n. | One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “DEIPNOSOPHIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| One adept at table talk | 1 answer |
| One skilled in table talk. | 1 answer |
| One who excels at table conversation | 1 answer |
| Person who exceeds in conversation at dinner table | 1 answer |
| Table-talk adept | 1 answer |
| a person skilled in dinner conversation | 1 answer |
| table philosopher | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEIPNOSOPHIST (4)
His _Deipnosophist_, or table-talk of the philosophers, is a large work full of pleasing anecdotes and curious information, gathered from comic writers and authors without number that have long since been lost.
The deipnosophist Athenæus long ago discovered that there was no love for the sublime and beautiful in an empty stomach, æsthetics yield then to gastronomies, and there is no prospect in the world so fine as that of a dinner and a nap, or _siesta_ afterwards.
The _Deipnosophistæ_ by Athenæus, to which belongs the distinction of being one of the earliest collections of _Ana_, is a curious sort of philosophers’ feast.
Amongst other foolish and trifling questions with which some Grammarian, in the Deipnosophistæ of Athenæus, (viii.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1962–1993).