Crossword-Solution: CANTERBURY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Canterbury | n. | A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made. |
| Canterbury | n. | A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc. |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
NTOIMEO
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with CANTERBURY (5)
The Archbishop of Canterbury consecrated Stephen: “wherefore the Lord visited the Archbishop with the same judgment which he had inflicted upon him who struck Jeremiah the great priest: he died within a year.” Stephen’s was the greater offense, but Stephen could wait; not so the Archbishop, apparently.
Though himself much more of a public man than the judge, he conveyed exactly the fine shade of self-effacement before the King’s justice; and though everyone looked at him as they would at the Prime Minister or the Archbishop of Canterbury, they could have said nothing of his part in it but that it was that of a private gentleman, with an accent on the noun.
Selecting from the canterbury some old family ditties, that in years gone by had been played and sung by her mother, Elfride sat down to the pianoforte, and began, “’Twas on the evening of a winter’s day,” in a pretty contralto voice.
Court of audience, or Audience court (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York.
All of the Canterbury Tales have originals or analogues, most of which have been reproduced by the London Chaucer Society.
Quotes with CANTERBURY (3)
Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer — Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus — Tragedies4. Sophocles — Tragedies5. Herodotus — Histories6. Euripides — Tragedies7. Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War8. Hippocrates — Medical Writings9. Aristophanes — Comedies10. Plato — Dialogues11. Aristotle — Works12. Epicurus — Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus13. Euclid — Elements14. Archimedes — Works15. Apollonius of Perga — Conic Sections16. Cicero — Works17…
That this is really the case was made plain to me by the questions asked me, mostly by young men, about my Canterbury play, The Zeal of Thy House. The action of the play involves a dramatic presentation of a few fundamental Christian dogmas — in particular, the application to human affairs of the doctrine of the Incarnation. That the Church believed Christ to be in any real sense God, or that the eternal word was supposed to be associated in any way with the word of creation;…
Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation. This train of thought, she perceives, is threatening mere waste of energy, even some collision with reality, for who will ever be able to lift a finger against Whitaker’s Table of Precedency? The Archbishop of Canterbury is followed by the Lord High Chancellor; the Lord High Chancellor is followed by the Archbishop of York. Everybody follows somebody, such is the philosophy of Whitaker; and the great thing is to k…
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