Crossword-Solution: TELIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Telic | a. | Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TELIC | anagram | LICET |
We have 23 clues for the answer “TELIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Expressing purpose, as a clause. | 1 answer |
| directed or moving towards some goal | 1 answer |
| Tending towards an end. | 1 answer |
| Tending toward an outcome | 1 answer |
| Tending toward a definite goal | 1 answer |
| Tending to a definite end | 1 answer |
| TENDING toward an end | 1 answer |
| TENDING to end | 1 answer |
| Having purpose. | 1 answer |
| Grammatically purposeful | 1 answer |
| Expressing purpose | 1 answer |
| END, tending to | 1 answer |
| Directed toward an end. | 1 answer |
| Directed toward a goal | 1 answer |
| Denoting the final end. | 1 answer |
| Denoting the end. | 1 answer |
| Denoting a purpose. | 1 answer |
| Having a purpose | 2 answers |
| Purposive | 3 answers |
| Goal-oriented | 3 answers |
| DIRECTED OR MOVING TOWARD THE REAR | 10 answers |
| DIRECTED OR MOVING INWARD OR TOWARD A CENTER | 10 answers |
| Purposeful | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TELIC (5)
Purposive progress rather than unconscious, telic rather than genetic, is the order of the evolution of society.
Certain families may definitely determine to modify their habits, and within a few years accomplish a telic change.
But with the awakening of the social consciousness and a quickening of the social conscience has come telic progress.
Etym: [See Ecbasis.] (Gram.) Defn: Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.
Intellectual man, changing the face of life with his inventions and artifices, performing telic actions, adjusting himself and his concerns to remote ends and ultimate compensations, will grapple with the problem of perpetuation as he has grappled with that of gravitation.
Quotes with TELIC (2)
To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's through descent with modification driven by the Darwinian mechanism. But within a design-theoretic framework, this possibility, though not precluded, is also not the only game in town. It's possible for descent with modification instead to be driven by telic processes inherent in nature (and t…
Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean — an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road. The hobo never knows what is going to happen the next moment; hence, he lives only in the present moment. He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 40 times in crossword archives (1951–2019).