Crossword-Solution: BOUSTROPHEDON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Boustrophedon | n. | An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BOUSTROPHEDON | anagram | NODEHPORTSUOB |
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| Ancient style of writing in lines that alternate direction | 1 answer |
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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
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eruption
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Sentences with BOUSTROPHEDON (5)
You dimly discern the majestic form of a venerable man stooping above a coffer of cedar and ivory, carved with the exploits of the goddess, and with _boustrophedon_ inscriptions.
What truth have you deduced, I will not say from medicine, which is too foolish a thing, but from astrology? Cite to me the virtues of the vertical boustrophedon, the treasures of the number ziruph and those of the number zephirod!” “Will you deny,” said Coictier, “the sympathetic force of the collar bone, and the cabalistics which are derived from it?” “An error, Messire Jacques! None of your formulas end in reality.
The laws of Solon were inscribed on wooden rollers and triangular tablets, in the species of writing called _Boustrophedon_ (lines alternating first from left to right, and next from right to left, like the course of the ploughman)--and preserved first in the Acropolis, subsequently in the Prytaneum.
The famous Sigean inscription is written in the most ancient of Greek letters, boustrophedon-wise; that is, the lines follow each other as oxen turn from one furrow to another in ploughing.
These are called the black or archaic vases; they are generally in an ancient style; their subjects belong to the most ancient mythological traditions, and their inscriptions to the most ancient forms of the Greek alphabet, written from right to left, or in boustrophedon.