Crossword-Solution: DISTICHS
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Dermatological complaint
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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.
Hint 2 anagram
ECMZEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DISTICHS (5)
And, finally, contemporary history was now treated in hexameters or distichs, sometimes in a narrative and sometimes in a panegyrical style, but most commonly to the honour of some prince or princely family.
When the Venetian government paid Sannazaro 600 ducats for a eulogy in three distichs,[627] no one thought it an act of generous prodigality.
Look, how many plumes are placed ```On her huge corpse, so many waking eyes ```Stick underneath, and, which may stranger rise ```In the report, as many tongues she wears.”= Compare with these jagged misshapen distichs the neat fabric which Hoole’s machine produces in unlimited abundance.
All our readers have doubtless seen the two distichs of Sir William Jones, respecting the division of the time of a lawyer.
Cato: Though Chaucer may have referred to the famous Censor, more probably the reference is merely to the “Moral Distichs,” which go under his name, though written after his time; and in a supplement to which the quoted passage may be found.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1979).