Crossword-Solution: REBUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rebus | n. | A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations. |
| Rebus | n. | A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting. |
| Rebus | v. t. | To mark or indicate by a rebus. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REBUS | anagram | BURSE, RUBES, SUBER, UBERS |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with REBUS (5)
The motto of the paper was from Horace: ``Est modus in rebus,'' and the editor, wishing to let his friends at a distance know that things were not going on quite well between him and his proprietors, printed this motto as,-- ``Est nodus in rebus.'' This was continued for three weeks before it was discovered and corrected by the persons concerned.
The copy of Emanuel Acosta I have mainly used is that in the Royal Library at Munich, De Japonicus rebus epistolarum libri iii, item recogniti; et in Latinum ex Hispanico sermone conversi, Dilingae, MDLXXI.
All supernaturalists admit that facts are under the judgment of higher law; but for Buddhism as I interpret it, and for religion generally so far as it remains unweakened by transcendentalistic metaphysics, the word “judgment” here means no such bare academic verdict or platonic appreciation as it means in Vedantic or modern absolutist systems; it carries, on the contrary, _execution_ with it, is _in __ rebus_ as well as _post rem_, and operates “causally” as partial factor in the total fact.
Quis enim adeo obtunisi (obtusi) pectores (is) et a sensu inhumanitatis extorris est qui ignorare potest immo non senserit in venalibus rebus quævel in mercimoniis aguntur vel diurna urbium conversatione tractantur, in tantum se licen liam defusisse, ut effrænata libido rapien—rum copia nec annorum ubertatibus mitigaretur.
The emperors adopted with pleasure this Persian metaphor.] 161 (return) [ For the _Agentes in Rebus_, see Ammian.
Quotes with REBUS (3)
Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of o…
The meaning did not precede the dream; the dream preceded the meaning. So the way to read the tale is to let the imagination carry one along. Not, above all, as a rebus to be decoded.
I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 208 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).