Crossword-Solution: SELENITES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SELENITES | anagram | ENLISTEES |
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| Gypsum crystals | 1 answer |
| Insectoid moon dwellers in H.G. Wells's "The First Men in the Moon" | 1 answer |
| CRYSTALS SONG | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
IINDVE
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with SELENITES (5)
The Selenites* disputed variously about our earth, and expressed their doubts if it could be inhabited: the air, they said, must certainly be too dense to allow any rational dweller in the moon the necessary free respiration.
What strange things men--no, what strange things Selenites sometimes take into their heads! * Dwellers in the moon.
According to Pliny, there is a stone in Arabia called Selenites, “wherein is a white, which increases and decreases with the moon.” My journal for the last year or two, has been _selenitic_ in this sense.
This treaty was sworn to on the part of the Heliots, by Pyronides, {93} and Therites, and Phlogius; and on the part of the Selenites, by Nyctor, and Menarus, and Polylampus." Such was the peace made between them; the wall was immediately pulled down, and we were set at liberty.
According to Pliny, there is a stone in Arabia called Selenites, "wherein is a white, which increases and decreases with the moon." My journal for the last year or two has been _selenitic_ in this sense.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1999–2024).