Crossword-Solution: PHORMINX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phorminx | n. | A kind of lyre used by the Greeks. |
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| Ancient Greek stringed instrument | 3 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.
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Sentences with PHORMINX (5)
Terpander is credited with having increased the number of strings to seven; Euclid, quoting him as his authority, states that "loving no more the tetrachordal chant, we will sing aloud new hymns to a seven-toned phorminx." What has been said of the scale of the lyre applies also to the cithara, and need therefore not be repeated here.
One of the very few authentic Greek odes extant is a Pythian ode by Pindar, in which the phorminx of Apollo is mentioned; the solo is followed by a chorus of citharoedi.
Such were the beginnings of the _chorus_, and of its songs (called _paeans_, from an epithet of Apollo), accompanied first by the phorminx and then by the flute.
Beyond, in the shadow of the cypresses, Mark caught a glimpse of two nymphs: one playing the double flute dear to Thebans, the other, seated, sweeping the strings of the Homeric phorminx.
Enoch is the _seventh_ Patriarch; Orpheus is the possessor of the Phorminx, the seven‐stringed lyre, which is the seven‐fold mystery of Initiation.