Crossword-Solution: RABELAIS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RABELAIS | anagram | RAISABLE |
We have 18 clues for the answer “RABELAIS”
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| Creator of Pantagruel. | 1 answer |
| Pantagruel creator | 1 answer |
| Monk, doctor, editor and writer (1490–1553). | 1 answer |
| His hero picked his teeth with an elephant's tusk. | 1 answer |
| He wrote "Pantagruel." | 1 answer |
| Giant of French Renaissance literature | 1 answer |
| Gargantua's creator | 1 answer |
| Gargantua creator | 1 answer |
| French scholar, physician, satirist. | 1 answer |
| "Gargantua and Pantagruel" author | 1 answer |
| Creator of Gargantua and Pantagruel | 1 answer |
| Creator of Gargantua | 1 answer |
| Comic genius of world literature | 1 answer |
| Author who used the pseudonym "Alcofribas Nasier," an anagram of his full name | 1 answer |
| Author of "Gargantua" | 1 answer |
| Alcofribas Nasier's real name | 1 answer |
| Alcofribas Nasier | 1 answer |
| 16th C. French satirist | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RABELAIS (5)
Bartholomew slaughter; Rabelais was not yet published; 'Don Quixote' was not yet written; Shakespeare was not yet born; a hundred long years must still elapse before Englishmen would hear the name of Oliver Cromwell.
Out of him flows much of Rabelais; and through Rabelais, directly and indirectly, a deep, permanent, and growing inspiration.
Within an hour the precocious beast surreptitiously entered my library for the first time in her life, and ate the covers of my pet edition of Rabelais.
The grand old countenance of Homer; the shrunken and decrepit form but vivid face of AEsop; the dark presence of Dante; the wild Ariosto; Rabelais’s smile of deep-wrought mirth, the profound, pathetic humor of Cervantes; the all-glorious Shakespeare; Spenser, meet guest for an allegoric structure; the severe divinity of Milton; and Bunyan, moulded of homeliest clay, but instinct with celestial fire,—were those that chiefly attracted my eye.
Feeling somewhat wearied with the survey of so many novelties and antiquities, I sat down upon Cowper’s sofa, while the virtuoso threw himself carelessly into Rabelais’s easychair.
Quotes with RABELAIS (3)
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer — Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus — Tragedies4. Sophocles — Tragedies5. Herodotus — Histories6. Euripides — Tragedies7. Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War8. Hippocrates — Medical Writings9. Aristophanes — Comedies10. Plato — Dialogues11. Aristotle — Works12. Epicurus — Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus13. Euclid — Elements14. Archimedes — Works15. Apollonius of Perga — Conic Sections16. Cicero — Works17…
I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais) I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote ("NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS,
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1947–2024).