Crossword-Solution: CANDLEMASS
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| CANDLEMASS | anagram | SLAMDANCES |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CANDLEMASS (5)
Although I have confined my remarks to the four feasts, Yule, Beltane, Midsummer, and Hallowe'en, because they are the oldest and most properly national, there were a number of other heathen feasts, emanating principally from Roman practice, which the Church converted into Christian feasts, notably what is now called Candlemass.
That I was received into the Church on the Eve of Candlemass 1909, and it is perhaps the only act in my life, which I am quite certain I have never regretted.
But after all, what says the plain wood-man, speaking of oaks, beech, elms, haw-thorns, and even what we call wild and hedge-fruit? Set them, says he, at All-hallowtide, and command them to prosper; set them at Candlemass, and intreat them to grow.
And I find them generally agreed, by their constant Observations, (and Experience dearly bought) that their times of danger are about the beginning of _February_ and of _November_; that is, at those Spring Tides which happen near those times; to which they give the names of _Candlemass-stream_ and _Allhallond-stream_; And if they scape those Spring-tides, they apprehend themselves out of Danger for the rest of the year.
From _Alhollandtide_ to _Candlemass_ being but three months; and from thence to _Alhollandtide_ again nine months.
Quotes with CANDLEMASS (1)
And thus it passed on from Candlemass until after Easter, that the month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in like wise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May, in something to constrain him to some manner of thing more in that month than in any…