Gordianadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈɡɔːdɪən/, U.S.

/ˈɡɔrdiən/

Forms: Also 1500s gordion, gordyon.

Etymology: < Latin Gordius or Gordium (see sense A. 1) + -an suffix. The phrase nodus Gordius (used figuratively) is a conjectural reading in Ammianus Marcellinus xiv. xi. i.

A. adj.

1. Gordian knot n.

a. An intricate knot tied by Gordius, king of Gordium in Phrygia. The oracle declared that whoever should loosen it should rule Asia, and Alexander the Great overcame the difficulty by cutting through the knot with his sword.

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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > condition of being unable to be untangled > that which is

Gordian1561

Gordian knota1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. ii. 34 As slippery as the Gordian-knot was hard.

1891 A. T. Pierson Credulity of Incred. 14 Alexander cut the Gordian Knot, which he had not the skill, patience, or strength to untie.

†b. A representation of an intricate knot.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > interlaced

fretc1385

friar knots1488

chainwork1551

knot1638

Gordian knotc1660

meander1706

entrelac1723

triquetra1845

knotwork1851

strapwork1854

Celtic knot1865

snake-knot1866

aligreek1867

plaitwork1871

honeycomb work1874

strap-ornament1895

honeycomb1924

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 56 The Gallery is prettily paynted with severall huntings; and at one end thereof, a Gordian Knot, with severall rusticall instruments..artificialy represented.

c. figurative or allusively: (a) A matter of extreme difficulty. to cut a Gordian knot: to get rid of a difficulty by force or by evading the supposed conditions of solution. (b) An indissoluble bond. †Also Gordian-twined knot.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult problem

knotc1000

a bone to pick (also gnaw)c1450

dark, hard sentence1535

nut1540

Gordian knot1579

nodus1728

teaser1759

stumper1807

Chinese puzzlec1815

facer1828

sticker1849

grueller1856

stumbler1863

twister1879

the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > that which connects or bond > an indissoluble bond

Gordian knot1579

(a)

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 396 Hee had found out a sworde to cutt in sunder this Gordian knot.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 47 Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy, The Gordian Knot of it he will vnloose.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 72 Death will find some ways to unty or cut the most Gordian Knots of Life.

1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 84 His Sword would have cut the Gordian Knot of hereditary Right.

1791 J. Bentham Panopticon Pref. The Gordian knot of the Poor Laws not cut but untied.

1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xxxii. 309 By no other possible means could the Gordian knot be cut.

(b)a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Dii This Gordion knot together co-unites A Medor partner in her peerlesse loue.1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 61 in Purple Island Strange power of home, with how strong-twisted arms And Gordian-twined knot dost thou enchain me!1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) ii. 19 Perhaps too much difficulty of untying the Gordian knot of matrimony..would be no kindness to the ladies.1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI lxxiv. 101 The Gordian or the Geordi-an knot, whose strings Have tied together Commons, Lords, and Kings.

2. Resembling the Gordian knot; consisting of twisted convolutions, intricate, involved.

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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective]

Gordian1606

interweaving1665

implicating1693

intertwisting1753

interlacing1770

pleaching1805

lacinga1834

intertwining1842

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [adjective]

nice?a1500

plaited1532

intricablea1540

unsimple?1541

entangled1561

intrinsicate1562

Gordian1606

involved1643

complexed1646

contortuplicated1648

complicated1656

puzzled1659

involute1669

complicatea1687

complex1715

woofed1820

snaggled1896

non-transparent1939

complexified1962

1606 True Relation Proc. against Garnet sig. Ss3 The binding knot of the late Gordian Conspiracie.

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 42 Heerby also dissolving tedious and Gordian difficulties, which have hitherto molested the Church of God.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 348 Close the Serpent sly Insinuating, wove with Gordian twine His breaded train.

1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 6 She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue.

1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xv, in Prometheus Unbound 219 Lift the victory-flashing sword, And cut the snaky knots of this foul gordian word.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. v. xiii. 193 Some of them [are] such as seem scarce capable of receiving solution, but in the Gordian stile.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 258 Some girt round them in orbs, snakes gordian, intertwining.

†B. n.

1. = Gordian knot.

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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > condition of being unable to be untangled > that which is

Gordian1561

Gordian knota1616

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 152 It is like the Gordian: whiche it is better to breake in sonder, than to labor so much in vndoing it.

1639 J. Fletcher et al. Bloody Brother i. i. sig. B4 My sword, With which the Gordian of your Sophistry Being cut, shall shew th' Imposture.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. ii. 36 These strongest obligations are all cancelled, these Gordians cut in sunder with the sword of warre.

1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 2) II. 195 And whoever is the Man that unties the Gordian, as some such is always to be found, his Fortune is made.

2. An inhabitant of Gordium; one skilled in tying intricate knots.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > [noun] > fastening with a knot > tying a knot > one who or that which > one skilled in tying knots

Gordian1606

1606 True Relation Proc. at Arraignm. Late Traitors sig. Ii The hardest knots that the Gordians of our age can deuise to tye.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gordian
释义	Gordianadj.n. Brit. /ˈɡɔːdɪən/, U.S. /ˈɡɔrdiən/ Forms: Also 1500s gordion, gordyon. Etymology: < Latin Gordius or Gordium (see sense A. 1) + -an suffix. The phrase nodus Gordius (used figuratively) is a conjectural reading in Ammianus Marcellinus xiv. xi. i. A. adj. 1. Gordian knot n. a. An intricate knot tied by Gordius, king of Gordium in Phrygia. The oracle declared that whoever should loosen it should rule Asia, and Alexander the Great overcame the difficulty by cutting through the knot with his sword. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > condition of being unable to be untangled > that which is Gordian1561 Gordian knota1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. ii. 34 As slippery as the Gordian-knot was hard. View more context for this quotation 1891 A. T. Pierson Credulity of Incred. 14 Alexander cut the Gordian Knot, which he had not the skill, patience, or strength to untie. †b. A representation of an intricate knot. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > interlaced fretc1385 friar knots1488 chainwork1551 knot1638 Gordian knotc1660 meander1706 entrelac1723 triquetra1845 knotwork1851 strapwork1854 Celtic knot1865 snake-knot1866 aligreek1867 plaitwork1871 honeycomb work1874 strap-ornament1895 honeycomb1924 c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 56 The Gallery is prettily paynted with severall huntings; and at one end thereof, a Gordian Knot, with severall rusticall instruments..artificialy represented. c. figurative or allusively: (a) A matter of extreme difficulty. to cut a Gordian knot: to get rid of a difficulty by force or by evading the supposed conditions of solution. (b) An indissoluble bond. †Also Gordian-twined knot. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult problem knotc1000 a bone to pick (also gnaw)c1450 dark, hard sentence1535 nut1540 Gordian knot1579 nodus1728 teaser1759 stumper1807 Chinese puzzlec1815 facer1828 sticker1849 grueller1856 stumbler1863 twister1879 the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > that which connects or bond > an indissoluble bond Gordian knot1579 (a) 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 396 Hee had found out a sworde to cutt in sunder this Gordian knot. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 47 Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy, The Gordian Knot of it he will vnloose. View more context for this quotation a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 72 Death will find some ways to unty or cut the most Gordian Knots of Life. 1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 84 His Sword would have cut the Gordian Knot of hereditary Right. 1791 J. Bentham Panopticon Pref. The Gordian knot of the Poor Laws not cut but untied. 1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xxxii. 309 By no other possible means could the Gordian knot be cut. (b)a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Dii This Gordion knot together co-unites A Medor partner in her peerlesse loue.1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 61 in Purple Island Strange power of home, with how strong-twisted arms And Gordian-twined knot dost thou enchain me!1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) ii. 19 Perhaps too much difficulty of untying the Gordian knot of matrimony..would be no kindness to the ladies.1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI lxxiv. 101 The Gordian or the Geordi-an knot, whose strings Have tied together Commons, Lords, and Kings. 2. Resembling the Gordian knot; consisting of twisted convolutions, intricate, involved. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective] Gordian1606 interweaving1665 implicating1693 intertwisting1753 interlacing1770 pleaching1805 lacinga1834 intertwining1842 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [adjective] nice?a1500 plaited1532 intricablea1540 unsimple?1541 entangled1561 intrinsicate1562 Gordian1606 involved1643 complexed1646 contortuplicated1648 complicated1656 puzzled1659 involute1669 complicatea1687 complex1715 woofed1820 snaggled1896 non-transparent1939 complexified1962 1606 True Relation Proc. against Garnet sig. Ss3 The binding knot of the late Gordian Conspiracie. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 42 Heerby also dissolving tedious and Gordian difficulties, which have hitherto molested the Church of God. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 348 Close the Serpent sly Insinuating, wove with Gordian twine His breaded train. View more context for this quotation 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 6 She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue. 1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xv, in Prometheus Unbound 219 Lift the victory-flashing sword, And cut the snaky knots of this foul gordian word. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. v. xiii. 193 Some of them [are] such as seem scarce capable of receiving solution, but in the Gordian stile. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 258 Some girt round them in orbs, snakes gordian, intertwining. †B. n. 1. = Gordian knot. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > condition of being unable to be untangled > that which is Gordian1561 Gordian knota1616 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 152 It is like the Gordian: whiche it is better to breake in sonder, than to labor so much in vndoing it. 1639 J. Fletcher et al. Bloody Brother i. i. sig. B4 My sword, With which the Gordian of your Sophistry Being cut, shall shew th' Imposture. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. ii. 36 These strongest obligations are all cancelled, these Gordians cut in sunder with the sword of warre. 1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 2) II. 195 And whoever is the Man that unties the Gordian, as some such is always to be found, his Fortune is made. 2. An inhabitant of Gordium; one skilled in tying intricate knots. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > [noun] > fastening with a knot > tying a knot > one who or that which > one skilled in tying knots Gordian1606 1606 True Relation Proc. at Arraignm. Late Traitors sig. Ii The hardest knots that the Gordians of our age can deuise to tye. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † gordianv. Etymology: < Gordian adj. transitive. To tie in a Gordian knot.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 32 Locks..simply gordian'd up and braided. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.n.1561v.1818
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Gordianadj.n.

† gordianv.