Crossword-Solution: ORMULUM
We have 1 clue for the answer “ORMULUM”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| gospel history | 1 answer |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "ORMULUM"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
On the back of an animal
?
D
?
O
?
R
?
S
?
A
?
L
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
ARDSOL
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
9 +1
New Suggestion for "ORMULUM"
Related word tools
Sentences with ORMULUM (5)
Thus 'sheepish' in the _Ormulum_ is an epithet of honour: it is used of one who has the mind of Him who was led as a sheep to the slaughter.
All the remains of the English tongue, in its transition state, are chiefly in verse; among them are the "Ormulum" (so called from the name of the author, Ormin), which is a metrical harmony of passages from the gospels contained in the service of the mass, and the long fable of "The Owl and the Nightingale," one of the most pleasing of these early relics.
THE ORMULUM.--Next in value to the Brut of Layamon, is the Ormulum, a series of metrical homilies, in part paraphrases of the gospels for the day, with verbal additions and annotations.
Layamon's "Brut" is translated (though not without original episodes) from the French of Robert Wace: and the "Ormulum," though drawn as to its matter from Latin comments on the Gospels, yet is in form deeply imbued with the character of French poetry.
Another book of the Junian bequest, hardly less singular and unique, is the "Ormulum," a poetical exposition of the Gospels, a work of the thirteenth century, of singular beauty, as poetry and as English.