Crossword-Solution: CHRONOGRAM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chronogram | n. | An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632. |
| Chronogram | n. | The record or inscription made by a chronograph. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “CHRONOGRAM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| INSCRIPTION in which certain letters express a date or epoch | 1 answer |
| SENTENCE in which certain letters express a date or epoch | 1 answer |
| THING recorded | 9 answers |
| thing written | 11 answers |
| Epoch | 56 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with CHRONOGRAM (5)
There is another near Relation of the Anagrams and Acrosticks, which is commonly [called [6]] a Chronogram.
But the arguments of the Comedies of Plautus are in form of acrostics, and acrostics occur in the original Hebrew of the 'Book of Psalms'.] [Footnote 5: was] [Footnote 6: known by the name of] [Footnote 7: The Chronogram was popular also, especially among the Germans, for inscriptions upon marble or in books.
More than once, also, in Germany and Belgium a poem was written in a hundred hexameters, each yielding a chronogram of the date it was to celebrate.] [Footnote 8: Bouts rimés are said to have been suggested to the wits of Paris by the complaint of a verse turner named Dulot, who grieved one day over the loss of three hundred sonnets; and when surprise was expressed at the large number, said they were the 'rhymed ends,' that only wanted filling up.] [Footnote 9: Menagiana, vol.
Sometimes the Chronogram is employed to express a date on coins or medals; but oftener it is simply used as a riddle: A poet who in blindness wrote; another lived in Charles's reign; a third called the father of English verse; a Spanish dramatist; the scolding wife of Socrates; and the Prince of Latin poets,--their initials give the year of the Great Plague--MDCLXV.--1665: Milton, Dryden, Chaucer, Lope-de-Vega, Xantippe, Virgil.
But we perceive that the obviously mutilated prophecy of Merlin the Magician and the apocryphal chronogram of the Venerable Bede had come under her notice.