Crossword-Solution: CHRESTOMATHY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chrestomathy | n. | A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy. |
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| Mencken's book, a selection of passages, with notes. | 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.
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eruption
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Sentences with CHRESTOMATHY (5)
FRAGMENTS OF THE EPIC CYCLE THE WAR OF THE TITANS Fragment #1—Photius, Epitome of the Chrestomathy of Proclus: The Epic Cycle begins with the fabled union of Heaven and Earth, by which they make three hundred-handed sons and three Cyclopes to be born to him.
This admirable book has not been, and from its mixture of taste and learning is never likely to be, superseded as an introduction to, and chrestomathy of, the subject.
Minor recommendations are, the inviting character of the print, and the moderate price of $1 25 (the chrestomathy being part of the same volume.) Students in Hebrew, especially if they have made trial of other grammars, will deem this work a valuable accession to our facilities for the acquisition of this original and sacred tongue.
Defn: A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.
His poems are lost, but an idea of them can be gained from the _Chrestomathy_ written by Proclus the Neo-Platonist of the 5th century or by a grammarian of the same name in the time of the Antonines.
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (1949).