Crossword-Solution: UNORGANIC
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Dermatological complaint
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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
CEAMZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with UNORGANIC (5)
They are all summed up in Coleridge's heart-broken "Oh, Lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live." This "animism," or identifying imagination, by means of which the child or the primitive man or the poet transfers his own life into the unorganic or organic world, is one of the oldest and surest indications of poetic faculty, and as far as we can see, it is antecedent to the use of verbal images or symbols.
This black soil has in its exhausted state abundance of silicates, sulphates, phosphates, and carbonates of alumina, potassa, lime, &c., and of organic acids, combined with the same unorganic substances, to attract and fix ammonia, and collect and store up moisture, and is exceedingly fertile and strong.
For if the intelligent dog or elephant have existence in the future, so may the fish, the mollusk, the monad, and even the speck of protoplasm, which loses itself in unorganic matter.
Now again a question suggests itself to the scientist, _Whence did the first life come from?_ We have the choice of only two explanations: either it has risen by itself, out of unorganic, dead matter, or it was produced by the hand of a Creator: either by _generatio aequivoca_ or the act of creation.
They were before much diminished in size, but here became an entirely unorganic, rectangular ornament.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1995).