Crossword-Solution: APHESIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aphesis | n. | The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. |
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| Gradual loss of initial vowel. | 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
CZEEMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with APHESIS (5)
They cite, as proof that this is so, the fact that the Greeks used to say: _Lais Aphesis (laois aphsesis)_, which also means that they had been pardoned.
There were other charges brought against Cocceius, however, one of which was his distinction between +aphesis hamartiôn+ and +paresis hamartiôn+, by which he held that the former was a complete pardon, but the latter incomplete, and only in force under the old dispensation.
This English tendency to aphesis is satirised in a French song of the 14th century, intentionally written in bad French.
APHESIS Among phonetic changes which occur with more or less regularity are those called aphesis, epenthesis, epithesis, assimilation, dissimilation, and metathesis, convenient terms which are less learned than they appear.
The starting-point, the aphesis, had, according to the expression of Pausanias, a form like the prow of a vessel--that is, advanced in a pointed form--to facilitate the start.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1950).