Crossword-Solution: NUMEN
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Creative force | 1 answer |
| Divine power or spirit | 1 answer |
| Divine spirit | 1 answer |
| Dynamic or creative force | 1 answer |
| LOCAL deity | 1 answer |
| Local deity of anc. Rome. | 1 answer |
| Presiding spirit | 1 answer |
| Presiding spirit in ancient Rome. | 1 answer |
| Presiding spirit of Roman myth. | 1 answer |
| a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place | 1 answer |
| deity or spirit presiding over a thing or place | 1 answer |
| presiding deity | 1 answer |
| Spiritual force | 3 answers |
| Deity | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NUMEN (5)
The nature of the king-worship of Egypt is still very obscure; the hero-worship of the Greeks very different from the adoration of the “præsens numen” in the reigning sovereign.—M.] 22 (return) [ See a dissertation of the Abbé Mongault in the first volume of the Academy of Inscriptions.] 23 (return) [ Jurandasque tuum per nomen ponimus aras, says Horace to the emperor himself, and Horace was well acquainted with the court of Augustus.
Johnson, "though I do not quite agree with the proverb, that Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia, yet we may very well say, that Nullum numen adest--ni sit prudentia." We had been visiting at a lady's house, whom as we returned some of the company ridiculed for her ignorance.
Generally, it was a brief Greek or Roman device, such as the Middle Ages knew so well how to formulate.—_Unde? Inde?—Homo homini monstrum—Astra, castra, nomen, numen._—Μέγα βιβλίον, μέγα κακόν.—_Sapere aude.
There cannot a worse state of things be imagined than where wickedness comes to be legitimate, and assumes, with the magistrates' permission, the cloak of virtue: "Nihil in speciem fallacius, quam prava religio, ubi deorum numen prxtenditur sceleribus." ["Nothing has a more deceiving face than false religion, where the divinity of the gods is obscured by crimes."--Livy, xxxix.
There cannot a worse state of things be imagined than where wickedness comes to be legitimate, and assumes, with the magistrates’ permission, the cloak of virtue: “Nihil in speciem fallacius, quam prava religio, ubi deorum numen prxtenditur sceleribus.” [“Nothing has a more deceiving face than false religion, where the divinity of the gods is obscured by crimes.”--Livy, xxxix.
Quotes with NUMEN (2)
It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and discovered things of this world as objects of veneration in their own right... they began to lose the finer appreciation of even the world itself. Thus to the Christian centuries, the flesh was holy (or sacer at least in one sense or the other), and they veiled its awful majesty; to the Humanist centuries it was divine in its own right, and they exhibited it. Now it is the commonpl…
The nod of a head is such a small thing, it can mean so little, yet it is the gesture of assent that allows, that makes to be. The nod is the gesture of power, the yes. The numen. the presence of the sacred, is called by its name.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1959–2014).