Crossword-Solution: TERAPH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Teraph | n. | See Teraphim. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TERAPH | anagram | TEPHRA, THERAP |
We have 3 clues for the answer “TERAPH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Semitic idol | 1 answer |
| household god or image venerated by ancient Semitic peoples | 1 answer |
| Image | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TERAPH (5)
After all, I liked you from the first moment I saw you, and asked the teraph about you, and I got an answer--such an answer! You shall know it some day.
What are rules and methods? I have seen things which make my brain-sphere reel: My magic teraph-bust, full-packed, and labelled, With saws, ideas, dogmas, ends, and theories, Lies shivered into dust.
The Dread of the World." Herbert states that Attila is represented on an old medallion with a teraph, or a head, on his breast; and the same writer adds: "We know, from the _Hamartigenea_ of Prudentius, that Nimrod, with a snaky-haired head, was the object of adoration of the heretical followers of Marcion; and the same head was the palladium set up by Antiochus Epiphanes over the gates of Antioch, though it has been called the visage of Charon.
Just then his stony Teraph--Duty--smiled very benignantly at the aching heart he laid upon her dreary cold altar.
She laid a hand down on the earth, her great Teraph, to see if it were possible it could still be warm and such a wrong done to her its child.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1983).