Crossword-Solution: FAUSTUS
We have 18 clues for the answer “FAUSTUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| GERMAN medium, well-known | 1 answer |
| Thomas Mann's "Doktor __" | 1 answer |
| Thomas Mann's "Doctor ___" | 1 answer |
| Marlowe's devil-dealing doctor | 1 answer |
| Marlowe's "The Tragical History of Doctor ___" | 1 answer |
| Marlowe title character | 1 answer |
| Marlowe hero | 1 answer |
| GERMAN swindler | 1 answer |
| GERMAN necromancer | 1 answer |
| GERMAN diviner | 1 answer |
| GERMAN black magician | 1 answer |
| GERMAN astrologer | 1 answer |
| GERMAN alchemist | 1 answer |
| Damned doctor | 1 answer |
| BLACK magician, well-known | 1 answer |
| MEPHISTOPHELES, victim of | 2 answers |
| BE DAMNED | 9 answers |
| ABODE OF THE DAMNED | 10 answers |
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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
AMCEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FAUSTUS (5)
Faustus, with some misgivings as to his sufficiency of venom, was allowed to try his hand in this capacity.
Some supposed him to be an Arabian Astrologer, Others to be a Travelling Mountebank, and many declared that He was Doctor Faustus, whom the Devil had sent back to Germany.
XXVIII "Besides that Faustus sorrowed to descry Him so bested; worse cause for sorrowing Was to that courtier to appear to lie Before Astolpho; he was pledged to bring One that was fairest deemed in every eye, Who must appear the foulest to that king; Yet he continued on his way to wend, And brought him to Pavia in the end.
Faustus of Byzantium, nearly a contemporary, (Armenian,) states that the Persians, on becoming masters of it, destroyed 40,000 houses though Ammianus describes the city as of no great extent, (civitatis ambitum non nimium amplæ.) Besides the ordinary population, and those who took refuge from the country, it contained 20,000 soldiers.
Yet neither party would have found their account in this foolish bargain.] 87 (return) [ The worship practised and inculcated by Tertullian, Lactantius Arnobius, &c., is so extremely pure and spiritual, that their declamations against the Pagan sometimes glance against the Jewish, ceremonies.] 88 (return) [ Faustus the Manichaean accuses the Catholics of idolatry.
Quotes with FAUSTUS (3)
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins.
Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its inherent opportunity to choose virtue and reject iniquity. “What shall a man gain if he has the whole world and lose his soul,” (Matt. 16: v. 26) - but for a notorious name, the ethereal shadow of a career, and a brief life of fleeting pleasure with no true peace? This was the blackest and most captivating tragedy of all, few could h…
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, LAT, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1983–2013).