单词 | daedalian |
释义 | DaedalianDaedaleanadj. 1. Of or after the style of Dædalus; skilful, ingenious, formed with art; resembling the labyrinth of Dædalus, intricate, maze-like. 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 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 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 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 111 The Dædalian..Labyrinths wherein hee takes his turnes. a1634 G. Chapman in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) Our bodies decked in our dædalian arms. 1745 J. Brown Ess. Satire 17 Dædalian arguments but few can trace. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 389 Suspended upon the Dædalian wings of paper money. View more context for this quotation 1880 Contemp. Rev. 37 475 (note) Beauty of contrivance, adaptation, or mechanism..we have called Daedalian beauty. 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 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 401 In various sort, Dedalian Nature seemes her to disport. 3. (See quot. 1848.) ΚΠ 1848 R. N. Wornum Lect. on 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1605 |
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