Definition of Pigmaean

1. pertaining to pygmies [adj] - See also: pygmies

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pigmaean

pigheadednesses
pight
pighted
pightel
pightels
pighting
pightle
pightles
pights
pigless
piglet
piglets
piglike
pigling
piglings
pigmaean (current term)
pigman
pigmean
pigmeat
pigmeats
pigment
pigment cell
pigment cell of skin
pigment cells of iris
pigment cells of retina
pigment cirrhosis
pigment epitheliopathy
pigment epithelium
pigment epithelium of eye
pigment epithelium of optic retina

Literary usage of Pigmaean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. King Arthur by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1851)
"Armed with the axe the Tritons had ejected, I rush'd to succour the pigmaean nation, In strife our valour, I have oft suspected, Proportions safety to ..."

2. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... for enchanted wind; That breath of thine can only raise N'ew storms, and discompose the seas. It may (assisted by the clatter) A pigmaean army scatter ..."

3. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"Another show'd where the pigmaean dame, Profaning Juno's venerable name, Turn'd to an airy crane, descends from far, And with her Pigmy subjects wages war. ..."

4. The Druidical Temples of the County of Wilts, by Edward Duke (1846)
"The temple of Saturn or Stonehenge is a pigmaean structure in comparison of the pyramids of Egypt, and if it be argued that the one was built by giants, ..."

5. Mythological Fables (1837)
"... fill'd the foremost place, Who claim'd the titles of the gods above, And vainly used the epithets of Jove. Another show'd where the pigmaean dame,J ..."

6. The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets (1813)
"... Who claim'd the titles of the gods above, And vainly us'd the epithets of Jove. Another show'd where the pigmaean dame, Profaning Juno's venerable name, ..."

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