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  1. Tiresias
    [typeface] Tiresias is a family of TrueType realist sans-serif typefaces that were designed for best legibility by people with impaired vision at the Scientific Research Unit of Royal National Institute of the Blind in London. The research basis of Tiresias Screenfont’s legibility claims h...
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  2. Tiresias
    [disambiguation] Tiresias was a blind prophet in Greek mythology. Tiresias may also refer to: ...
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  3. Tiresias
    [n] - (Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother
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  4. Tiresias
    In Greek mythology, a man of Thebes blinded by the gods and given the ability to predict the future. According to the Roman poet Ovid, Tiresias saw two snakes mating, struck at them, and was changed...
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  5. Tiresias
    noun (Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother
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  6. Tiresias
    in Greek mythology, a blind Theban seer. In the Odyssey he retained his prophetic gifts even in the underworld, where the hero Odysseus was sent to ... [1 related articles]
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  7. Tiresias
    In Greek mythology, Tiresias (Τειρεσίας, also transliterated as Teiresias) was a blind prophet of Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo. Tiresias participated fully in seven gener...
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  8. Tiresias
    Tiresias (tīrē'shus, -sēus) , in Greek mythology, a blind soothsayer who appears in many legends. According to one myth, when he saw Athena bathing she blinded him, but by way of compensation granted him prophetic powers. Another story is that Hera blinded him for disparaging h...
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  9. Tiresias
    In Greek mythology Tiresias was a blind prophet. He was the son of Everus and Chariclo. There are at least two versions of how he became to be blind. In the first he was out hunting and found two snakes coupling in a clearing. He killed the female one at which point Gaea changed him into a woman. Se...
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  10. Tiresias
    In Greek mythology, a man of Thebes blinded by the gods and given the ability to predict the future
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  11. Tiresias
    [horse] Tiresias (1816–1837) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from April 1819 to July 1820 he ran thirteen times, all but two of them at Newmarket and won eleven races. Both of his defeats came when he was attempting to concede weight to opponents in m...
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  12. tiresias
    1) Mythical being 2) Tiresias
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/tiresias/1

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