Crossword-Solution: EPICYCLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Epicycle | n. | A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center. |
| Epicycle | n. | A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Astronomical circle | 1 answer |
| Inner circle, in astronomy | 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
AEZECM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EPICYCLE (5)
Hang early plummets upon the heels of pride, and let ambition have but an epicycle[127] or narrow circuit in thee.
See since that Seaman’s epicycle sprite Engirdle, lure and goad him to the chase Along drear leagues of crimson spotting white With mother’s tears of France, that he may meet Behind suborned battalions, ranked as wheat Where peeps the weedy poppy, him of the sea; Earth’s power to baffle Ocean’s power resume; Victorious army crown o’er Victory’s fleet; And bearing low that Seaman upon knee, Stay the vexed question of supremacy, Obnoxious in the vault by Frederic’s tomb.
The fourth one in order is the yearly revolution which includes the earth with the moon's orbit as an epicycle.
Even with my limited opportunities for observing what went on, I saw many scenes of London intrigues and complex chicanery, “cycle and epicycle, orb in orb,” at which I sometimes smile to this day, and at which I smiled then, in spite of my misery.
Indeed, it is remarkable that he introduced an epicycle which was not considered necessary by Ptolemy in order to represent the inequalities in the motions of the planets around the sun.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1998–2002).