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Dædalian, -ean, a.|diːˈdeɪlɪən|
Also De-.
[f. L. Dædalē̆-us relating to Dædalus, Gr. δαιδάλεος cunningly wrought + -an; or f. Dædal-us + -ian.]
1. Of or after the style of Dædalus; skilful, ingenious, formed with art; resembling the labyrinth of Dædalus, intricate, maze-like.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 111 The Dædalian..Labyrinths wherein hee takes his turnes. a1634Chapman (W.), Our bodies decked in our dædalian arms. 1757J. Brown in Pope's Wks. 1757 III. p. xv. (Stanford), Dædalian arguments but few can trace. 1776Adam Smith W.N. ii. ii. (1869) I. 322 Suspended upon the Daedalian wings of paper money. 1880Contemp. Rev. XXXVII. 475 note, Beauty of contrivance, adaptation, or mechanism..we have called Daedalian beauty.
1636Raleigh's Tubus Hist. Pref. B, Contrived by a Dædalean Hand. 1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 41 To please the Dædalean Fancies of the ingenious Contrivers. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. iii. 14 Such creatures, like moles, are safe only underground, and their engineerings there become very dædalean. 1854Badham Halieut. 512 Unable to wind his way through the Dædalean mazes of a modern bill of fare.
†2. = dædal a. 3. Obs.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. Arke 425 In various sort Dedalian Nature seems her to disport.
3. (See quot.)
1848Wornum Lect. Painting 351 note, The black vases, or those with the black figures (skiagrams) or the stained reddish-yellow terra cotta, are the most ancient..The style of design of these black figures has been termed the Egyptian or Dædalian style. |