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Definition of Adagial
1. a. Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.
Definition of Adagial
1. Adjective. Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adagial
1. adage [adj] - See also: adage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adagial
Literary usage of Adagial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recensio synoptica annotationis sacrae, being a critical digest and by Samuel Thomas Bloomfield (1826)
"adagial sentences similar to the present are not unusual to the Jewish writers.
Vide Scheid. ap. ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1873)
"A., ie labor incessantly, making no distinction between day and night. The expression
is probably adagial, like our he labored day and ..."
3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1858)
"A., i, e. lab incessantly, making no distinction between day and night. Tl;>
pression is probably adagial, like our he labored day and nigh!, ..."
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