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gigantomachy|dʒaɪgænˈtɒməkɪ|
Also ‖ gigantoˈmachia.
[a. and ad. Gr. γιγαντοµαχία, f. γιγαντ(ο)-, γίγᾱς giant + µάχη battle.]
1. a. The war of the giants against the gods. b. A contest resembling this.
1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 31 In a Gigantomachy they prease to commix the heauen with the hell. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §19. 18 There had been always..a kind of gigantomachy betwixt these two parties or sects of men. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 148 This with our church monomachie Ends with a gigantomachie. 1710Hume Sacr. Success. (1716) 308 Its former gigantomachy drove our Church into the wilderness. 1855Smedley Occult Sc. 127 The Tartarus, which he prepares for the defeated Titans, after the Gigantomachia. 1885Illustr. Lond. News 11 Nov. 492 So ‘tall’ were the scores..that it was a veritable ‘gigantomachia’, or ‘battle of the Anakim’.
2. A representation of the same.
1820T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily I. i. 19 In the pediment, however, of the eastern portico was sculptured in high relief the Gigantomachia, or Assault of Heaven by the Titans. 1852Meanderings of Mem. I. 128 One is the sculptor, of the statue nice, Or Gigantomachies of rock and ice.
Hence † giganˈtomachize v. Obs.—1 intr. To rise in rebellion like the giants against heaven.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. v. iv, The..Goggle-ey'd Grumbledories would ha' Gigantomachiz'd. |