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Definition of Daedalian
1. Adjective. Ingeniously or cunningly designed; artistic, ingenious, intricate, skillful. ¹
2. Adjective. Difficult to comprehend due to complexity or intricacy. ¹
3. Adjective. Deceitful, duplicitous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Daedalian
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Daedalian
1. 1. Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious. "Our bodies decked in our daedalian arms." (Chapman) "The daedal hand of Nature." (J. Philips) "The doth the daedal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers." (Spenser) 2. Crafty; deceitful. Origin: L. Daedalus cunningly wrought, fr. Gr.; cf. To work cunningly. The word also alludes to the mythical Daedalus (Gr, lit, the cunning worker). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daedalian
Literary usage of Daedalian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture: Topical Lessons with by Charles Samuel Farrar (1881)
"THE daedalian SCULPTORS. THE BOLD STYLE. [BEFORE 600 B. c.] 1. General account
of the primitive sculptures of Asia, Africa and America; materials, subjects, ..."
2. The Description of Greece by Pausanias (1824)
"In remembrance of this reconciliation, they celebrate a festival which is called
Daedal, because the ancients called wooden statues daedalian. ..."
3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1880)
"At all évente, the group seen by Pausanias at Cnossus, if it really was a group
of sculpture, must have been the work of an artist later than the daedalian ..."
4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1908)
""The fate of the man-child"—the meaning of life in the presence of seeming evil;
life so full of mystery, so daedalian or labyrinthian in character. ..."
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