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Definition of Minerva
1. Noun. (Roman mythology) goddess of wisdom; counterpart of Greek Athena.
Definition of Minerva
1. n. The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
Definition of Minerva
1. Proper noun. (Roman god) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, and the arts, especially crafts and in particular weaving; daughter of Jupiter and Juno ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Minerva
1. The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minerva
Literary usage of Minerva
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch (1856)
"minerva —NIOBE. minerva. minerva, the goddess of wisdom, was the daughter of
Jupiter. She was said to have leaped forth from his brain, mature, ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A name of minerva, sometimes called Pallas minerva. According to fable, Pallas
was one of the Titans, of giant size, killed by minerva, who flayed him, ..."
3. Travels in Italy, Greece and the Ionian Islands: In a Series of Letters by Hugh William Williams (1820)
"BESIDES the magnificent Temple of minerva, the Acropolis has to boast of the
ruins of the contiguous Temples of minerva Polias, ..."
4. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"taken with them the worship of minerva, and the olive tree her emblem; ...
Some have supposed the minerva of Athens to be a daughter of Cecrops ; but this ..."
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