Crossword-Solution: OGDOAD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ogdoad | n. | A thing made up of eight parts. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “OGDOAD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| The number 8. | 1 answer |
| The number eight. | 1 answer |
| Octet | 2 answers |
| eight group | 3 answers |
| group eight | 3 answers |
| Eight-some | 4 answers |
| Group of eight | 6 answers |
| EIGHT, group of | 7 answers |
| Eight | 39 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
CEEMZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OGDOAD (5)
Full of his notions about an arkite idolatry and a Helio-dæmonic worship, Edward Davies gives this translation of an old Welsh poem, entitled _The Panegyric of Lludd the Great_:— ‘A song of dark import was composed by the distinguished Ogdoad, who assembled on the day of the moon, and went in open procession.
Their names did not survive their metamorphoses; each pair had no longer more than a single name, the termination of each name varying according as a god or a goddess was intended:--Nu and Nûît, Hehû and Hehît, Kakû and Kakît, Ninû and Ninît, the god One and the god Eight, the Monad and the Ogdoad.
Reasoning in this way, the Egyptians naturally tended towards that conception of the divine oneness to which the theory of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad was already leading them.
From Logos and Zoe were sent forth, by a conjunction, Anthropos and Ecclesia, and thus were formed the first-begotten Ogdoad, the root and substance of all things, called among them by four names; namely, Bythos, Nous, Logos, and Anthropos.
The figure of eight, which is a sign of the Nnu or associate gods in Egypt, who were the primary Ogdoad, is reproduced as a gnostic symbol, a figure of the pleroma and fellow-type of the eight-rayed star.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1955–1989).