Crossword-Solution: CAPUT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Caput | n. | The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum. |
| Caput | n. | The top or superior part of a thing. |
| Caput | n. | The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CAPUT | anagram | ACTUP, TUPAC |
We have 6 clues for the answer “CAPUT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Head or headlike structure. | 1 answer |
| Head: Lat. | 1 answer |
| Pompey's head | 1 answer |
| The head: Latin. | 1 answer |
| University council | 1 answer |
| Head | 101 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CAPUT (5)
The things which he lays by pass into another world; nothing more is seen of them, not even the _caput mortuum_,--the smoke.
But his words, if dry, are always manly and honest; there dwells in his pages a spirit of highly abstract joy, plucked naked like an algebraic symbol but still joyful; and the reader will find there a _caput mortuum_ of piety, with little indeed of its loveliness, but with most of its essentials; and these two qualities make him a wholesome, as his intellectual vigour makes him a bracing, writer.
Thus, in speaking of the Parthians, he says, Hinc in Parthicum perventum est, tunc ignobilem gentem: nunc caput omnium qui post Euphratem et Tigrim amnes siti Rubro mari terminantur.
Hoc verbum quod viderunt adversariis esse formidini; ut ipsis gladio, ipsum nefandæ caput hæreseos.] 57 (return) [ See Bull, Defens.
The fleet lost sight of Sicily, passed before the Isle of Malta, discovered the capes of Africa, ran along the coast with a strong gale from the north-east, and finally cast anchor at the promontory of Caput Vada, about five days’ journey to the south of Carthage.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Slate.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1942–2002).