Crossword-Solution: SILENTIARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Silentiary | n. | One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secrets of state. |
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| a person maintaining or bound to silence | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with SILENTIARY (5)
The king of the Lazi had been educated in the Christian religion; his mother was the daughter of a senator; during his youth he had served ten years a silentiary of the Byzantine palace, and the arrears of an unpaid salary were a motive of attachment as well as of complaint.
Where Hope, as in her own blue heaven, Sits beckoning me to bliss and thee! WHY DOES SHE SO LONG DELAY? BY PAUL, THE SILENTIARY.
Pegler, who is seventy-nine years of age and has long been a martyr to rheumatoid arthritis in both hands, belongs to the sect of the Silentiary Tolstoyans, who discountenance all music, whether sacred or profane.
CHAPTER V BYZANTINE ILLUMINATION The rebuilding of the city of Byzantium the beginning of Byzantine art--Justinian's fondness for building and splendour--Description of Paul the Silentiary--Sumptuous garments--The Gospel-book of Hormisdas--Characteristics of Byzantine work--Comparative scarcity of examples--Rigidity of Byzantine rules of art--Periods of Byzantine art--Examples--Monotony and lifelessness of the style.
Paul the Silentiary, an eye-witness of the whole proceeding, has left a description in verse, and the accurate Du Fresne in prose, which enable us easily to trace how the Roman city of Constantine became transformed into the semi-oriental Byzantium of Justinian.