Crossword-Solution: ORARIUM
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Ecclesiastical stole of Eastern church. | 1 answer |
| handkerchief | 13 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
CMEZAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ORARIUM (5)
The neck was bare, the amice being as yet unknown; instead of the stole was what was called the _orarium_, a sort of handkerchief resting on the shoulders, and falling down on each side.
ORARIUM, [=o]-r[=a]'ri-um, _n._ a linen neckcloth or handkerchief: a scarf attached to a bishop's staff.
The most ancient text wherein handkerchiefs are expressly mentioned, describes them as long cloths, called _oraria_, used and worn by senators “ad emungendum et exspuendum;” that use is said to have grown out of the convenience of the _orarium_, which is supposed to have been merely used at first to wave for applause in the public shows.
The others are all more or less fanciful; and the _orarium_ was certainly employed originally as a scarf.
Ambrose speaks of the face of the dead Lazarus being bound with an _orarium_; and Augustine uses the same word to indicate a bandage employed to tie up a wounded eye.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1953).