Crossword-Solution: RAPTUS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RAPTUS (5)
This was that general fit of grand hysterics, which takes possession of those confined in prisons, or that elemental insanity (raptus), which envelops unexpectedly and epidemically an entire lunatic asylum, from which even experienced psychiatrists grow pale.
Postquam felicitate SIBI PROPRIA Sese posteris commendaverat, Morte acerba raptus Anno oetatis 51 Eheul quam procul a patria! Prope Liburni portum in Italia, Jacet sepultus.
Then cast away, my child, the sacred keys, and from thy person The consecrated garlands which thou wearest." Yet, when, a moment after, Cassandra appears, singing, wildly, her inspired song, Hecuba calls her, "My _frantic_ child." Yet how graceful she is in her tragic _raptus_, the chorus shows.
Interim, dum tu celeres sagittas Promis, haec dentis acuit timendos, 10 Arbiter pugnae posuisse nudo Sub pede palmam Fertur et leni recreare vento Sparsum odoratis umerum capillis, Qualis aut Nireus fuit aut aquosa 15 Raptus ab Ida.
They do but repeat the promise and obscurity of Nature, for she herself has the same largeness, is such another _raptus_, proceeding to no end, but to a circle or complexity of ends.
Quotes with RAPTUS (1)
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules...
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1989).