Crossword-Solution: MUSCOVITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Muscovite | n. | A native or inhabitant of Muscovy or ancient Russia; hence, a Russian. |
| Muscovite | n. | Common potash mica. See Mica. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “MUSCOVITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A person from Moscow | 1 answer |
| Boris Pasternak was one | 1 answer |
| Certain Russian | 1 answer |
| MOSCOW inhabitant | 1 answer |
| Mica that's used as an electrical insulator | 1 answer |
| pale brown, or green, or colourless mineral of the mica group | 1 answer |
| white mica | 1 answer |
| White mice. | 2 answers |
| Moscow ___ | 2 answers |
| MUSCOVY inhabitant | 2 answers |
| MICA schist, constituent of | 5 answers |
| Mica | 6 answers |
| Russian | 10 answers |
| Capitalist | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MUSCOVITE (5)
The terror-stricken Muscovite scurried like a hunted rabbit through the hole that still gaped in the boma’s wall at the point where his own prey had escaped, and as Tarzan approached the camp upon the opposite side Rokoff disappeared into the jungle in the wake of Jane Clayton.
Chickens, of all breeds; ducks, of all kinds, wild and tame, the common, and the huge Muscovite; Guinea fowls, turkeys, geese, and pea fowls, are in their several pens, fat and fatting for the destined vortex.
Did they quail, those steeds of the squadrons light, Did they flinch from the battle's roar, When they burst on the guns of the Muscovite, By the echoing Black Sea shore? On! on! to the cannon's mouth they stride, With never a swerve nor a shy, Oh! the minutes of yonder maddening ride, Long years of pleasure outvie! No slave, but a comrade staunch, in this, Is the horse, for he takes his share, Not in peril alone, but in feverish bliss, And in longing to do and dare.
The Greek Church has animated the Muscovite peasant, and inspired him with hopes and ideas which, however humble, are still better than none at all; but the faith, and the forms, and the strange ecclesiastical literature which act so advantageously upon the mere clay of the Russian serf, seem to hang like lead upon the ethereal spirit of the Greek.
Until then, I shall guard her myself, and not you, nor any Muscovite that ever breathed, shall take her from me.” “And what is your object in keeping me from Sophie?” he asked.
Quotes with MUSCOVITE (3)
He might be better considered as an exponent of Tartar financial, military, and political methods, who used the shifting alliances of khans and princes to replace the Tartar yoke with a Muscovite one. In his struggle with the Golden Horde, whose hegemony he definitively rejected after 1480, his closest ally was the Khan of the Crimea, who helped him to attack the autonomy of his fellow Christian principalities to a degree that the Tartars had never attempted. From the Muscovi…
That's what we've been taught, this is the underpinning of all European culture-this firm belief that there are no secrets that won't sooner or later come to light. Who was it that said it? Jesus? No, Pascal, I think it was… so naïve. But this faith has been nurtured for centuries; it has sprouted its own mythology: the cranes of Ibycus, manuscripts don't burn. An ontological faith in the fundamental knowability of every human deed. The certainty that, as they now teach journ…
The Soviet Union was designed for Muscovite rule, not for division into independent republics. Yet the latter is exactly what happened in 1991 - and the Kremlin has never accepted it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1979–2014).