Minos is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MINOS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• MINO, a raincoat of hemp
• A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
• son of Zeus and Europa; king of ancient Crete; ordered Daedalus to build the labyrinth; after death Minos became a judge in the underworld

Words related to MINOS

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Words that contain MINOS

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How to use MINOS in a sentence

• Byron, like the rovers before Minos, was not ashamed of his piracy.
• We are not even told why Minos failed to keep his pledge to the maiden.
• They land and are received by devils, who drag them before Minos, judge of the infernal regions.
• Then it was rumored that King Minos had seized upon all the ships of Athens, and had burned a part of the city, and had forced the people to pay him a most grievous tribute.
• Every spring when the roses began to bloom seven youths and seven maidens were put on board of a black-sailed ship and sent to Crete to pay the tribute which King Minos required.
• The proceedings of judge Minos at the gate of Elysium CHAPTER VIII.
• Upon this the gate flew open, and Minos desired him to walk in, telling him, if he had mentioned this at first, he might have spared the remembrance of his plays.
• Minos replied it would be great pity to rob the world of so fine a gentleman, and therefore desired him to take the other trip.
• At which words the gate opened, and Minos bade him enter, giving him a slap on the back as he passed by him.
• Upon which Minos showed him the utmost respect, and ordered the gate to be opened.
• The two men consult together for a time, and then Rhadamanthus retires, and Minos falls asleep.
• Hereupon the Ghost of Euclid appears, and discusses with Minos the reasons for retaining his Manual as a whole, in its present order and arrangement.
• I read, the other day, an account, taken from an English paper, of a wonderful little dog, called Minos.
• Meriones, with his Cretan followers, settled at Engyion in Sicily, along with the preceding Cretans who had remained there after the invasion of Minos.
• The most familiar instance is the labyrinth made by Daedalus in Crete for King Minos.
• I make as little account of the histories of Saturn, Janus, Pelops, Atlas, Dardanus, Minos of Crete, and Zoroaster of Bactria.
• One of his most curious inventions was a labyrinth which he constructed for Minos, the king of Crete.
• There, amidst the rushes, wandered the souls of those children whose eyes had but opened and shut to the kindly light of day, and there in a gloomy cavern Minos judges men.
• Primitive legend asserted that his tomb was on Mount Juktas, the conical hill which overlooks the ruins of the city of Minos, his son, his friend, and his priest.
• So runs the great story which links Minos and Crete with the favourite hero of Athens.
• But having slain, through jealousy, his nephew Perdix, who promised to excel him in skill, he was forced to flee from Athens, and so came to the Court of Minos.
• So long as the war-fleet of Minos was in being, Knossos needed no fortifications.
• There is, indeed, an atmosphere of legal nicety, worthy of the House of Minos, in the way in which these records were secured.
• And then the actual story of the House of Minos will appeal to all.
• Minos, he says, went down into the Sacred Cave, and reappeared with the law, saying that it was from Zeus himself.
• And the last legend, related by Lucian, places in the same cave that union of Zeus with Europa from which Minos sprang.
• Not all of the tribes which had owned the dominion of the House of Minos were content, however, to remain as subjects to the mainland conquerors.
• So Daedalus alone came safely to Sicily, and was there hospitably received by King Kokalos of Kamikos, for whom, as for Minos, he executed many marvellous works.
• The Dictaean Cave has already been mentioned as being peculiarly associated with the legends about the birth of Zeus and his relationship with Minos.
• Minos, the president, the representative of theology, made him a sign to sit down on the form.
• Minos, meditating on the answer just given by Ursus, sank into the depths of his own imbecility, and kept silent.
• The seventh labor was to capture a mad bull that the Sea-god Neptune had let loose in the island of Crete, of which island Minos was at that time King.

Similar words containing MINO without suffix s

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