Crossword-Solution: NEPTUNIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Neptunist | n. | One who adopts the neptunian theory. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “NEPTUNIST”
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| AQUEOUS origin of certain rock, person who maintains the (geol.) | 2 answers |
| PERSON maintaining aqueous origin of certain rock (geol.) | 2 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
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eruption
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Sentences with NEPTUNIST (5)
This Neptunist hypothesis, mark, borne out though it seemed to be by the most conspicuous surrounding facts, was quite untenable if analyzed.
Desmarest alone, who had long before provided ample materials for refuting such a theory, kept aloof from the strife; and whenever a zealous Neptunist wished to draw the old man into an argument, he was satisfied with replying, "Go and see."[103] _Hutton_, 1788.--It would be contrary to all analogy, in matters of graver import, that a war should rage with such fury on the Continent, and that the inhabitants of our island should not mingle in the affray.
After many years of futile controversy the first serious weakening of the position of the dominant Neptunist school arose from the defection of some of the most prominent of Werner's pupils.
His commanding position, as the most accomplished geologist on the continent, gave great importance to his recantation of the Neptunist creed.
The alteration of the fossiliferous Lias by dolerite at Portrush into a flinty rock that looked like basalt served at one time as a prop for the "Neptunist" theory of the origin of igneous rocks.