Crossword-Solution: HIERA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HIERA | anagram | HIREA, IERAH, IHEAR |
We have 3 clues for the answer “HIERA”
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| Ancient Greek temples. | 1 answer |
| Ancient name of Vulcano, Lipari islands. | 1 answer |
| Old Greek temples | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HIERA (5)
Best clothes and common clothes, thick clothes and thin clothes, flannels and linens, socks and collars, with handkerchiefs enough to keep the pickpockets busy for a week, with a paper of gingerbread and some lozenges for gastralgia, and “hot drops,” and ruled paper to write letters on, and a little Bible, and a phial with hiera picra, and another with paregoric, and another with “camphire” for sprains and bruises.
Hudson, that "it ought to be taken for granted, as a certain truth, that many predictions of the Jewish prophets were preserved, not in writing, but by memory." Whereas, it seems to me so far from certain, that I think it has no evidence nor probability at all.] 11 (return) [ By these hiera, or "holy places," as distinct from cities, must be meant "proseuchae," or "houses of prayer," out of cities; of which we find mention made in the New Testament and other authors.
The band of “devoted youth,”—hiera neotês.+—of the younger brothers, devoted to the gods and whatever luck the gods might afford, because there was no room for them at home—went forth, bearing the sacred flame from the mother hearth; itself a flame, of power to consume the whole material of existence in clear light and heat, with no smouldering residue.
This name for a burning mountain was first applied to that which exists in the island anciently called Hiera, one of the Lipari group.
The ancient heathen, having deified this personage, imagined, on first seeing a burning mountain, that Tubal-cain, or Vulcan, must have established his forge in the heart of it, and so, not unnaturally, named it Volcano--an appellation which the Island of Hiera retains to the present day.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1945–1970).