Crossword-Solution: INRI
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INRI (5)
The storms have doubled over the tin plate for the inscription INRI, and the rains have effaced the letters.
But this time----" "If I only knew what is written on the tablet." "Over His head? My sight seems to have gone." "Inri!" exclaimed somebody, "Inri! Somebody calls out 'Inri.'" "Those are the letters on the tablet." "But the man's name's not Inri." "Something quite different, my friend.
The three crosses are put on the extreme right of the picture, and its centre is occupied by the executioners, one of whom, standing on a ladder, receives from the other at once the sponge and the tablet with the letters INRI.
The initial letters of these words are INRI—the symbol usually translated as _I_esus _N_azarenus _R_ex _I_udæorum—“Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” This square of INRI is the _Adam square_, which was extended from, as a foundation, into four others of 144 × 2 = 288, to the side of the large square of 288 × 4 = 1152, = the whole circumference.
Now, over the _head_ of Jesus crucified was placed the inscription, of which the initial letters of the words have always been retained as symbolic, and handed down and used as a monogram of Jesus Chrestos—_viz._, INRI or _Jesus Nazarenus Rex Judæorum_; but they are located on the _Cross_, or the cubed _form_ of the circular origin of measures which measure the substance of _Earth_, _Air_, _Fire_ and _Water_, or INRI = 1152, as shown.
Quotes with INRI (1)
At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They had groovy titles like The Word or The Way, and translated the Bible into “contemporary English,” which meant Saul yelling at Jonathan, “You son of a bitch!” (I Samuel 20:30). Awesome! The King James version gave this verse as “Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman,” which was bogus in comparison. Maybe these translations went a bit far. I recall one o…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 237 times in crossword archives (1949–2022).