Crossword-Solution: HOMERIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Homeric | a. | Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HOMERIC | anagram | MORICHE |
We have 17 clues for the answer “HOMERIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Adjective for the "Iliad" or "Odyssey" | 1 answer |
| relating to or characteristic of Homer or his age or the works attributed to him | 1 answer |
| Of heroic dimensions | 1 answer |
| Of epic quality. | 1 answer |
| Like the "Odyssey" | 1 answer |
| Like a great poet. | 1 answer |
| Greek poetic style | 1 answer |
| Great in conception. | 1 answer |
| Grand; imposing | 1 answer |
| Adjective for irrepressible laughter | 1 answer |
| Like the Iliad or the Odyssey | 2 answers |
| Like the "Iliad" | 3 answers |
| Of epic proportions | 4 answers |
| grandiose | 38 answers |
| "Epic!" | 41 answers |
| Laughter | 68 answers |
| Grand | 102 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HOMERIC (5)
But, if Homer never did any public service, was he privately a guide or teacher of any? Had he in his lifetime friends who loved to associate with him, and who handed down to posterity an Homeric way of life, such as was established by Pythagoras who was so greatly beloved for his wisdom, and whose followers are to this day quite celebrated for the order which was named after him? Nothing of the kind is recorded of him.
She was named after her grandmother, who had in her turn inherited from another ancestress the name of the Homeric matron whose peculiar merits won her a place even among the Puritan Faiths, Hopes, Temperances, and Prudences.
Hugo: Fighting is all a mistake, friend Eric, And has been so since the age Homeric, When Greece was shaken and Troy undone, Ten thousand lives for a worthless one.
PREFACE This volume contains practically all that remains of the post-Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry.
The Homeric lore which Methley exhibited in the Troad, is curiously illustrated by an Eton story, that in a pugilistic encounter with Hoseason, afterwards an Indian Cavalry officer, while the latter sate between the rounds upon his second’s knee, Savile strutted about the ring, spouting Homer.
Quotes with HOMERIC (3)
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I canno…
Paradoxically, our imperial global Anglo-American language is dull with the glitter of its own decay. In response, the new meta- physical poet might consider the following cleansing strategies: keep faith with the canonical writers of the past, study Homeric Greek, excavate etymologies, embrace threatened languages, practice the fine art of translation, listen regularly to the musical flow of the breath and the beat of the heart, switch off the television, become a votary of …
At the centre of all these noble races we cannot fail to see the blond beast of prey, the magnificent blond beast avidly prowling round for spoil and victory; this hidden centre needs release from time to time, the beast must out again, must return to the wild: - Roman, Arabian, Germanic, Japanese nobility, Homeric heroes, Scandinavian Vikings - in this requirement they are all alike. It was the noble races which left the concept of 'barbarian' in their traces wherever they w…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1950–2020).