Crossword-Solution: ABLATIVES
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
OECRNA
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ABLATIVES (5)
But in «Galba Athēnīs habitat», _Galba lives at Athens_, «Galba Pompēiīs habitat», _Galba lives at Pompeii_ «Athēnīs» and «Pompēiīs» are locative ablatives.
Then he began to construe;--a frightful confusion of nominatives without verbs, accusatives translated as ablatives, and adverbs turned into prepositions, ensued, and after a hopeless flounder, during which Mr Gordon left him entirely to himself, Barker came to a full stop; his catastrophe was so ludicrous, that Eric could not help joining in the general titter.
Come, little boys, attention lend, All words are long in a that end: (In proof of which I’ll bet a quart,) Excepting those which must be short-- As pută, ită, posteă, quiă, Ejă, and every case in iă; Or _a_, save such as we must class With Grecian vocatives in as, And ablatives of first declension-- Besides the aforesaid, we may mention Nouns numeral that end in ginta, Which common, as a bit of flint are.
Busy over those vindictive lines in which Queen Dido, spurned by Aeneas, pronounces a curse upon his head and all his generation, the eight seniors on this particular morning translated one for the other, "Hate, with a never-ceasing hate." All of the savage beauty of the lines was lost on them, floundering in the maze of ablatives, subjunctives and the like.
The Latin and Greek _humi_ and [Greek: chamai] are locatives, _facillime_ (_facillumed_) and [Greek: eutychôs] ablatives, [Greek: pantê] and [Greek: hama] instrumentals, [Greek: paros], [Greek: hexês] and [Greek: têlou] genitives.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1959).