Crossword-Solution: SPECULARII
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEAG
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SPECULARII (4)
These seers are mentioned in the counsels of the Church as specularii, children often acting as the seers, and although in some quarters they were looked upon with suspicion as heretics, and were under the ban of the Church, yet they had an extensive following.
The early church condemned _specularii_ (mirror-gazers), and Aubrey and the _Memoirs_ of Saint-Simon contain "scrying" anecdotes of the 17th and 18th centuries, while Sir Walter Scott's story, _My Aunt Margaret's Mirror_, is based on a tradition of about 1750 in a noble Scottish family.
Dee and the Specularii have been paralleled by recent visions in "the crystal," revealing events then passing at a distance unknown to the seer; and that the nucleus of fact in some legends of ghosts and haunted houses is probably to be sought in a telepathic hallucination.
Sir Walter Scott tells us that in his time they were still known among the Scottish Highlanders as “Stones of Power.”[278] The testimony of John of Salisbury (1120?-1180) shows that in the twelfth century, in England, divination by means of the arts of the _specularii_ was often practised.