Crossword-Solution: OVIDIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ovidian | a. | Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid. |
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| Adjective for "Metamorphoses" | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVIDIAN (5)
These Provencal ideals of the courtly life were carried into Northern France partly as the result of a royal marriage in 1137 and of the crusade of 1147, and there by such poets as Chrétien they were gathered up and fused with the Ovidian doctrine into a highly complicated but perfectly definite statement of the ideal relations of the sexes.
Homer doubtless owes to his translator many Ovidian graces not exactly suitable to his character; but to have added can be no great crime, if nothing be taken away.
Amongst these last was the Ovidian form of connecting the unseen powers moving in nature with human sympathies of love or reverence.
This first, which we have styled (in equity as well as for distinction) the _Ovidian_, is too ærial, too allegoric, almost to be susceptible of much terror.
The Ovidian illustrations, under a false superstition, are entitled to give the designation, as being the first, the earliest, but not at all as the richest.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).