Crossword-Solution: OPHIS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OPHIS | anagram | HOPIS, IHOPS, OSHIP, SOPHI |
We have 3 clues for the answer “OPHIS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| MANTINEA City river | 1 answer |
| Serpent: Comb. form. | 1 answer |
| ARCADIAN river | 2 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with OPHIS (5)
The volutes and cowries of this formation, as well as the lunulites and corals, favour the idea of a warm climate having prevailed, which is borne out by the discovery of a serpent, _Palæophis typhœus_ (see Fig.
Yet it is significant that _ophis,_ the snake, is derived, like _drakon,_ from a root meaning nothing more than to perceive or regard.
But I should think, that Eva was the same as Eph, Epha, Opha, which the Greeks rendered Οφις, Ophis, and by it denoted a serpent.
Adjacent to these {places} is Pleuron;[63] in which Combe,[64] the daughter of Ophis, escaped the wounds of her sons with trembling wings.
From the Hebrew _Ob_, the Greek [Greek: ophis] was probably derived; for the same word, in Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek, which denotes "divination" denotes a "serpent." "Nachash,"[4] "ilahat,"[5] "[Greek: oiônizesthai],"[6] have the same double signification as if the serpent were recognised as the grand inspirer of the heathen prophets.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1948–1955).