Crossword-Solution: ACROSTICAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Acrostical | n. | Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ACROSTICAL | anagram | SOCRATICAL |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Pertaining to a kind of puzzle. | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
EZCEMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ACROSTICAL (3)
The book closes with an acrostical poem---twenty-two verses beginning with the Hebrew letters in the order of the alphabet--upon "The Virtuous Woman." The word "virtue" here is used in the Roman sense; it signifies rather the vigorous woman, the capable woman.
The title of the thirty-third has probably been omitted by some copyist; the ninth and tenth in some old Hebrew copies are written as one psalm, and there is an acrostical arrangement which shows that they really belong together.
George Leghorn was particularly happy at these pencil games, and to him is due this very clever combination of the lyrical and the acrostical: "My first a man is, and my next a trap; My whole's forbidden, lest it cause trouble." The answer to the acrostic is "mantrap"; the missing rhyme is "mishap." The entire solution was given in something under half an hour by Popsie Bantam.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1953).