Crossword-Solution: ETYMOLOGISTS
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
ONITMOE
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with ETYMOLOGISTS (5)
Martini, ll,) nobles, and appears to correspond better with the Scandinavian word iarl or earl, than with any of those numerous derivations proposed by etymologists.” Malte-Brun, vol.
Etymology in ancient as in modern times was a favourite recreation; and Socrates makes merry at the expense of the etymologists.
His pre-eminence in the latter faculty gave occasion to some etymologists to ring changes on his name, and to decide that it was derived from Follis Optimus, softened through an Italian medium into Folle Ottimo, contracted poetically into Folleotto, and elided Anglicé into Folliott, signifying a first-rate pair of bellows.
This uncertainty is most frequent in the vowels, which are so capriciously pronounced, and so differently modified, by accident or affectation, not only in every province, but in every mouth, that to them, as is well known to etymologists, little regard is to be shewn in the deduction of one language from another.
The street called Barbican derived its name, according to Stow, from the fact that at one time there had stood there "a _burgh-kenning_, or watch-tower of the city, called in some language a _barbican_;" and modern etymologists perfect Stow's observation by tracing the name, through the mediæval Latin _barbacana_, to the Persian _bála khaneh_, meaning "upper chamber," whence our less corrupt form _balcony_, actually identical with barbican.
Quotes with ETYMOLOGISTS (2)
The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ without a sacrifice that reconciles the world to God is a cheap, colorless, itinerant preacher who deserves to be popular for His great Sermon on the Mount, but also merits unpopularity for what He said about His Divinity on the one hand, and divorce, judgment, and hell on the other. This sentimental Christ is patched together with a thousand commonplaces, sustained sometimes by a…
The modern world, which denies personal guilt and admits only social crimes, which has no place for personal repentance but only public reforms, has divorced Christ from His Cross; the Bridegroom and Bride have been pulled apart. What God hath joined together, men have torn asunder. As a result, to the left is the Cross; to the right is Christ. Each has awaited new partners who will pick them up in a kind of second and adulterous union. Communism comes along and picks up the …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1984).