Crossword-Solution: APHRODISIAC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aphrodisiac | a. | Alt. of Aphrodisiacal |
| Aphrodisiac | n. | That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “APHRODISIAC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Substance that makes you hot | 1 answer |
| love-potion | 2 answers |
| Love potion | 3 answers |
| ACTIVATOR | 28 answers |
| excitant | 34 answers |
| Drug | 35 answers |
| Stimulant | 38 answers |
| MEDICINAL herb, classification of | 38 answers |
| amative | 52 answers |
| Erotic | 59 answers |
| Spice | 61 answers |
| amorous | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APHRODISIAC (5)
Cabrolius speaks of a man who took a potion of aphrodisiac properties, in which, among other things, he put an enormous dose of cantharides.
Whether seen as the spit of witches, a more or less magic aphrodisiac, or a miraculous life-prolonging food, truffles gain in status because our experience, reflected in the language pertinent to cooking, led us to regard them from a perspective different from those who first discovered, by accident, their nutritive value.
The Egyptians especially delight in aphrodisiac literature treating, as the Turks say, de la partie au-dessous de la taille; and from fifteen hundred to two thousand copies of a new work, usually lithographed in cheap form, readily sell off.
Why Cantarella? Possibly because it is a pleasing, mellifluous word that will help a sentence hang together smoothly; possibly because the notorious aphrodisiac properties of that drug suggested it to Giovio as just the poison to be kept handy by folk addicted to the pursuits which he and others attribute to the Borgias.
These are the people who, indulgent or indifferent to aphrodisiac plays, raise the moral hue and cry against performances of Mrs Warren's Profession, and drag actresses to the police court to be insulted, bullied, and threatened for fulfilling their engagements.
Quotes with APHRODISIAC (3)
An aphrodisiac will disappear, delusional, like permanence or wealth - a shimmering, as if love were a ghost -and yet my passion for you seethes and searswithout an end. Late April leaves can’t cravecaress of dew, sunlight’s sweet splash, more than I pine for your embrace, us turned to one; when harsh reversals scar, the thought of you will salvelike summer wind in autumn; deep red bloodsurging along with mine, staid genes worked hotfrom your electric charms, as all my moodss…
Fear can be a potent aphrodisiac.
perhaps, all these years, historians had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral because a spiral was so difficult to describe. was war, then, the big solution after all? war the great aphrodisiac, the great source of world adrenalin, the solvent of ennui, angst, melancholia, accidia, spleen? war itself a massive sexual act. -war, finally, the controller, the trimmer & excisor; the justifier of fertility?" --the Wanting Seed/Burgess
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Appears in: Onion.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2012).