Crossword-Solution: EDILE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Edile | n. | See Aedile. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| EDILE | anagram | DELIE, DIELE, ELIDE, ILEDE, LIDEE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EDILE (5)
Marcus Agrippa, when he was edile, opened one hundred and seventy private baths, for the use of the people.
Cicero likewise seems to hint at this in a letter to Axius, where he says, that Caesar (7) had in his consulship secured to himself that arbitrary power [26] to which he had aspired when he was edile.
CAIUS ALBUTIUS SILUS, of Novara [921], while, in the execution (529) of the office of edile in his native place, he was sitting for the administration of justice, was dragged by the feet from the tribunal by some persons against whom he was pronouncing a decree.
Scipio Africanus, (the elder,) at the age of sixteen distinguished himself at the battle of Ticinus; at twenty was made edile, and soon after pro-consul in Spain; at twenty-nine he won the great battle of Zama, and closed his military career.
Those whose ancestors or themselves had borne any curule magistracy, that is, had been Consul, Prætor, Censor or Curule Edile, were called nobiles, and had the right of making images of themselves, which were kept with great care by their posterity, and carried before them at funerals.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 165 times in crossword archives (1942–2020).