Crossword-Solution: XANTHIPPE
We have 11 clues for the answer “XANTHIPPE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Peevish wife in Athens, 400 B. C. | 1 answer |
| xantippe | 1 answer |
| SOCRATES, wife of | 2 answers |
| Wife of Socrates | 2 answers |
| Shrewish wife | 3 answers |
| Nagging wife? | 3 answers |
| Shrewish woman | 5 answers |
| female fighter | 16 answers |
| Harpy | 28 answers |
| Virago | 30 answers |
| Scold | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZMCEAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with XANTHIPPE (5)
Signior Hortensio, ’twixt such friends as we Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou know One rich enough to be Petruchio’s wife, As wealth is burden of my wooing dance, Be she as foul as was Florentius’ love, As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd As Socrates’ Xanthippe or a worse, She moves me not, or not removes, at least, Affection’s edge in me, were she as rough As are the swelling Adriatic seas: I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua.
Almost as soon as the friends of Socrates enter the prison Xanthippe and her children are sent home in the care of one of Crito's servants.
The gathering of the friends at the commencement of the Dialogue, the dismissal of Xanthippe, whose presence would have been out of place at a philosophical discussion, but who returns again with her children to take a final farewell, the dejection of the audience at the temporary overthrow of the argument, the picture of Socrates playing with the hair of Phaedo, the final scene in which Socrates alone retains his composure--are masterpieces of art.
CHAPTER XII: THE HOUSE-BOAT DISAPPEARS Queen Elizabeth, attended by Ophelia and Xanthippe, was walking along the river-bank.
His toga would be quite as apt to catch in the gear as your skirts." Xanthippe looked puzzled for a moment.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1962–1974).