Crossword-Solution: MONASTERIES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Monasteries | pl. | of Monastery |
We have 4 clues for the answer “MONASTERIES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Religious residences | 1 answer |
| Cloisters | 2 answers |
| Brothers' keepers | 4 answers |
| Retreats | 23 answers |
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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
ZEEMCA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MONASTERIES (5)
Here is one that went true; the chronicler’s satisfaction in it is not hidden: In the month of August, Providence displayed its justice in a remarkable manner; for two of the nobles who had converted monasteries into fortifications, expelling the monks, their sin being the same, met with a similar punishment.
Resistance was vain; and they were compelled to follow to a large room, which, rising on clumsy Saxon pillars, resembled those refectories and chapter-houses which may be still seen in the most ancient parts of our most ancient monasteries.
Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
Meno: Then be sure that they will seek revenge upon you for demystifying the ideas and concepts which they worked so long and hard and secretly to create and protect; for they are a jealous lot in the extreme, hiding in mountain caves, which are hardly fit to be called monasteries by even the most hardened monk.
Some persons were driven by conscience into the desert, into monasteries hoping there to merit grace by a monastic life.
Quotes with MONASTERIES (3)
Suddenly I began to find a strange meaning in old fairy-tales; woods, rivers, mountains, became living beings; mysterious life filled the night; with new interests and new expectations I began to dream again of distant travels; and I remembered many extraordinary things that I had heard about old monasteries. Ideas and feelings which had long since ceased to interest me suddenly began to assume significance and interest. A deep meaning and many subtle allegories appeared in w…
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.
Five hundred years ago the notoriously savvy Henry VIII discovered an elegant way to solve both his theological problems and his personal liquidity crisis — he dissolved the monasteries and nicked all their land.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1998–2015).