Crossword-Solution: LACUNAE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Lacunae | pl. | of Lacuna |
We have 7 clues for the answer “LACUNAE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CELL-occupied depressions or spaces in bone or cartilage | 1 answer |
| Gaps; breaks. | 1 answer |
| Unfilled spaces | 2 answers |
| Discontinuities | 2 answers |
| Blank spaces. | 4 answers |
| Gaps | 10 answers |
| Cavities | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LACUNAE (5)
Passages enclosed in square brackets are suggestions of Koechly for supplying the general sense of lacunae.
About a fourth, comprehending with lacunae the first portion of the dialogue, is preserved in several MSS.
They may be compared to the faults of Geology, in which different strata cross one another or meet at an angle, or mix with one another either by slow transitions or by violent convulsions, leaving many lacunae which can be no longer filled up, and often becoming so complex that no true explanation of them can be given.
CLEINIAS: Assuredly: but may we not now, Stranger, prescribe these studies as necessary, and so fill up the lacunae of our laws? ATHENIAN: They shall be regarded as pledges which may be hereafter redeemed and removed from our state, if they do not please either us who give them, or you who accept them.
James Speke of Comerton--I have inveighed against these lacunae, at others I have been equally troubled by the excessive prolixity of what remains and the difficulty of disintegrating from the confused whole the really essential parts.
Quotes with LACUNAE (1)
And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip into my lacunae. So that I can be filled and braced from the inside and fortified for the voyage. Because without my world inside me I will contract and congeal, more even than I am now, without speech and without actions and without any purchase upon time.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1950–2022).