"Ximenean" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Ximénez or Ximenes + -an",
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      "form": "more Ximenean",
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          "ref": "1992 July 28, Warren Usui, “ACC 5 -- The rest of the clues.”, in rec.puzzles.crosswords (Usenet)",
          "text": "For example, I did not follow a Ximenean rule that a member of a larger class cannot be used to define the class itself (one poster brought this up).",
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          "ref": "2009, Dean Olsher, From Square One: A Meditation, with Digressions, on Crosswords",
          "text": "Don Manley calls these non-Ximenean clues “wild and woolly” and worries they're far too common.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words",
          "text": "[…] the Ximenean camp […] makes up the hardliners, setters and solvers who insist on every clue being thoroughly sound in both grammar and execution […]",
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          "text": "Speaking of the Ximenean Polyglot, Prescott calls it a “noble monument of piety, learning, and munificence, which entitles its author to the gratitude of the whole Christian world.”—Ferd. 5r Isab., Vol. III., p. 289.",
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          "text": "In the oldest Mozarabic service-book (the Orationale Gothicum) the series of services of instruction for the Compétents (Missae Cate- chumenorum) is confined to three weeks, and not, as in the Ximenean printed service-books, extended to six weeks.",
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          "text": "1911, Arthur Cayley Headlam (Bishop of Gloucester), The Church Quarterly Review\nThe Orationale is a MS. of the highest antiquity, bearing throughout a character consistent with an older date than the MSS. which underlie the Ximenean Missal and Breviary"
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          "ref": "1977, 'Apex', \"Stephen Sondheim 'The Lyric Poet of Broadway' ... and Crossword Composer?\", Games & Puzzles, page xlix",
          "text": "I managed to complete a puzzle and as Ximenes enjoyed solving it, and as I thought he might welcome the opportunity to enter a clue writing contest himself, I decided to send the puzzle to a few more Ximeneans and set the name of the author of the quotation as the word to be clued."
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          "ref": "2012, David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words",
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          "text": "Speaking of the Ximenean Polyglot, Prescott calls it a “noble monument of piety, learning, and munificence, which entitles its author to the gratitude of the whole Christian world.”—Ferd. 5r Isab., Vol. III., p. 289.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012, David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words",
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