Crossword-Solution: SEPPUKU
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Seppuku | n. | Same as Hara-kiri. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “SEPPUKU”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Self-inflicted ritual death of a samurai | 1 answer |
| hara belly | 1 answer |
| Hara-kiri | 2 answers |
| suicide | 5 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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SEPPUKU (5)
Among the highest class of retainers, it was also a duty to make protest against misconduct on the part of their lord by performing seppuku, when all other means of bringing him to reason had [288] failed,--which heroic custom has been made the subject of several popular dramas founded upon fact.
When once their swords had drunk the consecrated blood, they laid the severed head upon their master's tomb and then gladly, even rapturously, delivered themselves up, and ripping open their bowels they died by that judicially ordered seppuku which cleansed their memory from every stain, and gave to them the martyr's fame and crown forever.
And yet no sentence or process of death known in western lands had such influence in glorifying the victim, as had seppuku in Japan.
The dead body of Shu[u]zen was proved a voluntary _seppuku_ (cut belly) for some cause; that of the old man required no explanation.
For I believe it true that he was not beheaded by the victors at Jokoji, and cast into the ditch as dogs are cast, but committed the honorable seppuku upon himself.
Quotes with SEPPUKU (1)
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2019).