Crossword-Solution: NISAEAN
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NISAEAN | anagram | ASINEAN, INANASE, SINAEAN |
We have 3 clues for the answer “NISAEAN”
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| Breed of ancient Persian horse. | 1 answer |
| Pertaining to ancient plain of Persia, famous for horses. | 1 answer |
| ___ horse of Persia 500 B.C. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
LALWOP
Hint 3 another clue
BATTER ___
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Sentences with NISAEAN (5)
The Magi, however, were not deceived; they shut themselves up in their palace, assembled an army in the Nisaean plain, promised the soldiers high pay, and used every effort to strengthen the belief of the people in Gaumata's disguise.
The Magi, however, were not deceived; they shut themselves up in their palace, assembled an army in the Nisaean plain, promised the soldiers high pay, and used every effort to strengthen the belief of the people in Gaumata’s disguise.
Notable for a description of horse raising and use among the nomad Arabs, evidence of the survival of the ancient Nisaean breed in Turkey, and stories of the Godolphin Arabian.
This he cannot do, if he is Artaxerxes's physician [Footnote: See Ctesias in Notes] trembling before him, or hoping to get a purple cloak, a golden chain, a horse of the Nisaean breed, in payment for his laudations.
The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid of Artaxerxes, whose physician {55a} he is; as long as he looks for the purple robe, the golden chain, or the Nisaean horse, {55b} as the reward of his labours; but Xenophon, that just writer, will not do this, nor Thucydides.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1942–1960).