Crossword-Solution: MUMPSIMUS
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ASLDRO
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Sentences with MUMPSIMUS (5)
The bishops and other church dignitaries tried for a while to renew the old king-godding 'mumpsimus'; but the second Charles laughed at them, and they quarrelled with his successor, and hated the hero who delivered them from him too thoroughly to have flattered him with any unction, even if William's Dutch phlegm had not precluded the attempt by making its failure certain.
His {565} own anecdote of the old priest who, having the misprint "mumpsimus" for "sumpsimus" in his missal, refused to correct the error when it was pointed out, is perfectly typical of the position of his critics.
The Liberal party still clung to its miserable old mumpsimus of _Laissez-faire_, and steadily refused to learn the new and nobler language of Social Service.
Some are too stiff in their old _mumpsimus_, and others too busy and curious in their new _sumpsimus_.[3] Thus the pulpits are, as it were, batteries against each other; the noise is hostile and ruinous.
Such a deliberate preference of_ “mumpsimus” _to_ “sumpsimus” _is by no means calculated to conciliate favour, or even to win respect.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1977).