Crossword-Solution: OSSIANIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ossianic | a. | Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard. |
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| Of an Irish hero. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Sentences with OSSIANIC (5)
There will be interesting sections on the Ossianic controversy and the growth of the taste for Highland scenery.
All the pieces here attributed to Ossian are written in the same metre, tone, and spirit, as those attributed to him in the other collection, so if Macpherson’s Ossianic poems, which he said were collected by him in the Highlands, are forgeries, Smith’s Ossianic poems, which, according to his account, were also collected in the Highlands, must be also forged, and have been imitated from those published by the other.
Madame la Duchesse de Langeais says they give a woman something vague, Ossianic, and very high-bred.” “Very good; send them to me at once.” Then the lady turned quickly toward the rue de Menars, and entered her own house.
That fragments of Ossianic legend (if not of Ossianic poetry) survive in oral Gaelic traditions, seems certain.
For the calm, guarded, and sternly courteous language which governments had long been accustomed to employ, were substituted puns, interjections, Ossianic rants, rhetoric worthy only of a schoolboy, scurrility worthy only of a fishwife.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1961).