Crossword-Solution: ESSENIC
We have 3 clues for the answer “ESSENIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like cenobites of the second century | 1 answer |
| Of an ascetic brotherhood. | 1 answer |
| Of ancient ascetics | 1 answer |
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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 ESSENIC (5)
None knew what had become of him until a while after a letter was received addressed to the Curators of the Court, in which he announced that, finding he had no vocation for an Essenic career, he had taken refuge with friends of his late father, in some place not stated.
His time of preparation was spent in the wilderness near the Dead Sea; his preaching of righteousness toward God, and justice toward one's fellow men, was in agreement with Essenism; while his insistence upon Baptism was in accordance with the Essenic emphasis on lustrations." In this very conservative statement is shown the intimate connection between the Essenes and Early Christianity, through John the Baptist.
The Essenic saints endeavored to acquire miraculous powers through using the names of certain angels, and thus exorcising the evil spirits.
But to be an Essenic doctor was to be the most ascetic scholar and the most scholarly ascetic in the world, at that time.
His first trouble weighed heavily upon him and its triple nature of distress, heart-hurt and apprehension, sensations so new and so near to nature as to be at wide variance with anything Essenic, moved him into a mood essentially human.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1949–1989).