Crossword-Solution: SUMPSIMUS
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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
GEAAT
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SUMPSIMUS (5)
His {565} own anecdote of the old priest who, having the misprint "mumpsimus" for "sumpsimus" in his missal, refused to correct the error when it was pointed out, is perfectly typical of the position of his critics.
Some are too stiff in their old _mumpsimus_, and others too busy and curious in their new _sumpsimus_.[3] Thus the pulpits are, as it were, batteries against each other; the noise is hostile and ruinous.
Such a deliberate preference of_ “mumpsimus” _to_ “sumpsimus” _is by no means calculated to conciliate favour, or even to win respect.
Amen.) After receiving the sacred blood: Quod ore sumpsimus, Domine, pura mente capiamus; et de munere temporali fiat nobis remedium sempiternum.
There is, unfortunately, no more difficult task than to substitute the correct ‘sumpsimus’ for the long-cherished and accepted ‘mumpsimus’ of popular historians.