Crossword-Solution: EPONYMIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Eponymic | a. | Same as Eponymous. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “EPONYMIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like Fahrenheit or Celsius | 1 answer |
| Like something named after someone | 1 answer |
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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
ECMAZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EPONYMIC (5)
The inhabitants make use of it for fuel, or else sell it to their neighbours the Teutones.” Pliny says that Timæus gave full credit to this story, but that “he called the island not Abalus, but Baltia.” Out of this _Abal-_, and this _Balt-_, I believe the eponymic names of _Abal_-ung (_Amal_-ung and _Balt_-ung) grew, just as Hellen did out of Hellas.
The etymology is not quite certain,—we know no place of the name likely to have been the eponymic,—and possibly it is a corruption of a hybrid (Hind.
But in the fictitious genealogy or history of the myth-maker, the mere unaltered name of the nation, tribe, country, or city often becomes without more ado the name of the eponymic hero.
The invention of ancestries from eponymic heroes or name-ancestors has, however, often had a serious effect in corrupting historic truth, by helping to fill ancient annals with swarms of fictitious genealogies.
Yet, when surveyed in a large view, the nature of the eponymic fictions is patent and indisputable, and so regular are their forms, that we could scarcely choose more telling examples of the consistent processes of imagination, as shown in the development of myths.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2001–2019).