Crossword-Solution: SATURNIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Saturnian | a. | Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age. |
| Saturnian | a. | Hence: Resembling the golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment. |
| Saturnian | a. | Of or pertaining to the planet Saturn; as, the Saturnian year. |
| Saturnian | n. | Any one of numerous species of large handsome moths belonging to Saturnia and allied genera. The luna moth, polyphemus, and promethea, are examples. They belong to the Silkworn family, and some are raised for their silk. See Polyphemus. |
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| Prosperous; peaceful | 1 answer |
| Of a planet | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with SATURNIAN (5)
Saturnia regna[Lat], Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses, fat city [coll.]; fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes.
While Virgil, in hexameters of exquisite modulation, described the sports of rustics, those rustics were still singing their wild Saturnian ballads.
Even so did the ancient Saturnian poetry become the quarry in which a crowd of orators and annalists found the materials for their prose.
Yea, ere Saturnian earth her child consumes, And I lie down with outworn ossuaries, Ere death’s grim tongue anticipates the tomb’s _Siste viator_, in this storied urn My living heart is laid to throb and burn, Till end be ended, and till ceasing cease.
And indeed, if they are to have a Saturnian Kingdom, by appearance it will be on conditions only! Anticipations there had been, that old unkindnesses against the Crown-Prince, some of which were cruel enough, might be remembered now: and certain people had their just fears, considering what account stood against them; others, VICE VERSA, their hopes.
Quotes with SATURNIAN (3)
That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words, unable to escape through the Saturnian discipline of lead, so filled the spaces of the loft that the air was all driven away. The lovers suffocated, but when the sacristan opened the tiny door the words tumbled him over in their desire to be free, and were seen flying across the city in the shape of doves.
Our society has long treated men as machines, as bodies expendable in the name of progress or profit. Men have overruled their pain and soul's delight, taught to think of themselves as "mechanisms". Such an estrangement wounds very deeply; it has gone on so long and is so taken for granted that healing individuals, let alone a whole gender, is a dubious undertaking. But the beat goes on, the Saturnian shadow lives, the only game in town, and shame on the defector. The woundin…
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft sped through the Saturnian system more than a quarter of a century ago, it came within 90,000 kilometers of the moon Enceladus. Over the course of a few hours, its cameras returned a handful of images that confounded planetary scientists for years.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).