Crossword-Solution: SYZYGY
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| Syzygy | n. | The point of an orbit, as of the moon or a planet, at which it is in conjunction or opposition; -- commonly used in the plural. |
| Syzygy | n. | The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek verse, an iambic syzygy. |
| Syzygy | n. | Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side. |
| Syzygy | n. | The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm. T () the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to Pronunciation, //262-264, and also //153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “SYZYGY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Celestial line-up | 1 answer |
| position of a celestial body when sun, earth, and the body are in line | 1 answer |
| Three celestial bodies in a straight line | 1 answer |
| Point in the moon's orbit, in astronomy. | 1 answer |
| Orbit point, in astronomy. | 1 answer |
| Highest-scoring Scrabble word that doesn't use A, E, I, O or U | 1 answer |
| Either of two opposing points in an orbit. | 1 answer |
| Eclipse lineup | 1 answer |
| Eclipse cause | 1 answer |
| Celestial configuration | 1 answer |
| Celestial alignment | 1 answer |
| Black and white or sun and moon | 1 answer |
| Astronomical alignment | 1 answer |
| Alignment of the sun, earth and moon, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Alignment of celestial bodies | 1 answer |
| Astronomical phenomenon | 5 answers |
| ALIGNMENT OF CELESTIAL BO | 10 answers |
| ALIGNMENT OF THE SUN, EAR | 10 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
CEZEAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SYZYGY (5)
The invisibility of God co-operates also for the sake of the faith of that which has been fashioned.” For the Demiurge, called God and Father, he designated the image and prophet of the true God, as the Painter, and Wisdom, whose image, which is formed, is to the glory of the invisible One; since the things which proceed from a pair [syzygy] are complements [_pleromata_], and those which proceed from one are images.
Thus each syzygy (as new and full are technically called) is too early; each quadrature is too late; the maximum hurrying and slackening force being felt at the octants, or intermediate 45° points.
The circle corresponding to the middle index, extending through the first semicircle from apogee to the lower perigee and returning through the second semicircle to the upper locations of apogee, shows the true equation or eccentricity of the sun, joined with the little equation of the moon in syzygy.
Read Massinger aright, and measure by time, not syllables, and no lines can be more legitimate, none in which the substitution of equipollent feet, and the modifications by emphasis, are managed with such exquisite judgment.”(166) Be it noted that this praise comes from a master of his art, for no one who has once appreciated Coleridge’s command of vowel-syzygy and the velvet-like texture of his blank verse can refuse him that title.
Now in the epirrhematic syzygy which constituted the second half of the parabasis, even as late as Aristophanes, when it naturally must have changed considerably in function, “the ode and antode normally contain an invocation, either of a muse or of gods, who are invited to be present at the dance, the divine personages being always selected with reference to the character of the chorus.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Daily Beast, Newsday, NYT, Slate, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1954–2023).