Crossword-Solution: TOUCHSTONE
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| Touchstone | n. | Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite. |
| Touchstone | n. | Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “TOUCHSTONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| character in Shakespeare's play As You Like It | 1 answer |
| black jasper | 1 answer |
| Measure of quality | 1 answer |
| Handle granite? | 1 answer |
| Feel Oliver? | 1 answer |
| Clown in "As You Like It" | 1 answer |
| BASANITE | 1 answer |
| QUARTZ, black | 2 answers |
| Shakespearean clown | 3 answers |
| Acid test? | 4 answers |
| Standard of comparison | 7 answers |
| Yardstick | 10 answers |
| Benchmark | 16 answers |
| Quartz | 24 answers |
| criterion | 25 answers |
| Hallmark | 26 answers |
| Archetype | 32 answers |
| Gauge | 55 answers |
| Standard | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with TOUCHSTONE (5)
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.
THE TOUCHSTONE By Edith Wharton I “Professor Joslin, who, as our readers are doubtless aware, is engaged in writing the life of Mrs.
And yet he needs must pause a while to think of the dear comrade he had lost--of that loved boy, his pattern in the time of their common youthfulness which gleamed in memory as bright and misty as a legend, and of the perfect chevalier who had been like a touchstone to Robert Calverley a bare half-hour ago.
And sometimes it would be a touchstone indeed, beautiful in hue, adorned with polishing, the light inhabiting its sides; and when he found this, he would beg the thing, and the persons of that place would give it him, for all men were very generous of that gift; so that at the last he had his wallet full of them, and they chinked together when he rode; and when he halted by the side of the way he would take them out and try them, till his head turned like the sails upon a windmill.
The criterion of certainty, according to the philosophers, will be, when discovered, an infallible method of establishing the truth of an opinion, a judgment, a theory, or a system, in nearly the same way as gold is recognized by the touchstone, as iron approaches the magnet, or, better still, as we verify a mathematical operation by applying the PROOF.
Quotes with TOUCHSTONE (3)
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never …
Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together. I am not afraid, he said to himself." I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.
A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the constitution of objects, I would not understand how we could know anything of them *a priori*; but if the object (as object of the senses) conformed to the constitution of our faculty of intuition, I could very well conceive such a possibility. As, however, I cannot rest in these intuitions if they are to become knowledge, but have to refer them as re…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1986–2019).