单词 | daedal |
释义 | † Daedaln. Obsolete. 1. An anglicized form of the proper name Dædalus; a skilful artificer or fabricator like Dædalus. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skilful person > skilled fabricator Daedal?1614 Daedalus1631 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > skilled worker or craftsman wright?a695 craftyeOE craftimanOE craftmanc1275 wroughtc1275 master-mana1325 mister mana1325 craftsmana1382 man of craft1389 artificera1393 handcraftman?c1480 handcraftsman1485 mechanic1509 handcrafta1525 handicraftsman1530 artisana1538 handicraftmana1544 handicraft1547 artsman1551 artist1563 mechanician1570 tradesmana1591 mechanical1600 mechanist1606 Daedal?1614 blue apron1629 Daedalus1631 crafter1643 fitter1648 mystery-man1671 toolsman1821 fundi1860 tradie1912 craftspersona1917 1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. sig. A5 My lame-legd Muse..Yet doth aspire with Dedall's wings.] ?1614 W. Drummond Silke-worme of Loue in Poems The Silke-Worme of Loue. A Dædale of my Death. 2. A maze or labyrinth. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [noun] > winding curve(s) > thing having > a maze or labyrinth mazec1430 mizmaze1547 labyrinth1577 turnabouta1603 meander1603 Daedal1699 dédale1916 1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria (Plan) sig. b Groves, Labyrinths, Dedals..Close-Walks..and other Relievo's; of Topiary and Hortulan Architecture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). daedaladj. Chiefly poetical. 1. Skilful, cunning to invent or fashion. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > ingenious craftlyOE craftyOE quainta1250 enginefulc1400 maliciousc1425 industriousc1487 curious1489 ingenious1576 daedal1590 Daedalian1607 fertile-headed1632 knacky1710 supple1710 tricksome1821 tactical1883 tricky1887 fertile-brained1894 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. Proem sig. Bb4 All were it Zeuxis or Praxitcles: His dædale hand would faile, and greatly faynt. a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 147 Out-run the wind-out-running Dædale Hare. 1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 346 Here the dashing Blind Harry the Harper had hung up his dædal harp. 1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 33 By the dædal hand of Titan Nature piled. 2. Displaying artistic cunning or fertility of invention; maze-like; = Daedalian adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > having practical, operative, or constructive skill > skilfully made or wrought > and elaborate curiousc1384 exquisite1561 Daedalian1607 pandaedalian1618 elaborate1621 daedala1649 inextricable1692 Bezaleelian1878 a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 184 Ye who with curious numbers, sweetest art, Frame Dedall Nets our beauty to surprize. 1746 J. Warton Ode iii. (R.) Here ancient art her dædal fancies play'd In the quaint mazes of the crisped roof. 1836 W. S. Landor Pericles & Aspasia I. 86 The dedal dance is spun and woven. 3. Of the earth, etc.; ‘Manifold in works’; hence, varied, variously adorned.A vague poetic use after Lucretius ( i. 7 ‘dædala tellus’; v. 234 ‘natura dædala rerum’). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] sunderlyeOE manifoldeOE selcoutha1000 felefoldc1000 mislichOE alkinOE manykinOE fele-kync1175 serekina1300 sundera1325 sundrya1325 serea1340 divers1340 varyingc1340 variantc1380 muchfoldc1384 serelepesa1400 serelepya1400 multifaryc1460 sundryfoldc1460 multiplicate?a1475 variable?a1475 sundrilyc1480 diversea1542 particoloured1591 multifarious1593 Protean1594 daedal1596 choiceful1605 Daedalian1605 multiplex1606 variated1608 diversified1611 multiplicious1617 variousa1634 multivarious1636 mosaic1644 multiple1647 omnigenous1650 chequered1656 plurifarious1656 ununiform1660 variate1677 disuniform1687 Proteusian1689 unsteady1690 unequable1693 inequable1721 variegating1727 varied1733 multitudinous1744 multifold1806 polygeneous1818 unequalized1822 ruleless1836 varicoloured185. non-uniform1856 omnigener1857 polytypic1858 multiferous1860 variatious1871 variegated1872 polytypical1890 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > variously adorned daedal1596 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. x. sig. K4 Then doth the dædale earth throw forth to thee Out of her fruitfull lap aboundant flowres. View more context for this quotation 1745 T. Warton Pleasures of Melancholy 248 What dædal landscapes smile! 1817 W. Wordsworth Sequel to ‘Beggars’ For whose free range the dædal earth Was filled with animated toys. 1834 I. D'Israeli Revol. Epick i. xv The dædal faith of the old world had died. 1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 28 With what dædal fulness Thy beds their blossoms shew! ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves > like a maze or labyrinth forwrinked14.. mazy1579 coney-vaulted1585 labyrinthian1588 mazelike1596 labyrinth-like1601 Daedalian1607 labyrinthine1632 cuniculous1634 labyrinthed1641 labyrinthala1661 labyrinthiform1805 daedal1818 meandriform1857 mazed1920 1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 181 Search my most hidden breast! By truth's own tongue, I have no dædale heart. ΚΠ 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. F3 Dædaleum folium, a Dædal leaf. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.?1614adj.1590 |
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