adamantinen.adj.

Brit.

/ˌadəˈmantʌɪn/, U.S.

/ˌædəˈmænˌtaɪn/,

/ˌædəˈmæntn/,

/ˌædəˈmænˌtin/

Forms: Middle English adamantyne, Middle English adamauntyn, Middle English– adamantine.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French adamantin; Latin adamantinus.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French adamantin (French adamantin ) of or resembling adamant or diamond (13th cent. in Anglo-Norman; also 16th cent. in figurative use of the heart) and its etymon classical Latin adamantinus of or resembling adamant (especially as typifying hardness) or diamond < ancient Greek ἀδαμάντινος of steel, hard as adamant < ἀδαμάντ- , ἀδάμας adamant n. + -ινος -ine suffix². Compare ( < Latin) Old High German adamantīn, also (with suffix substitution) adamantisk.In adamantines stan (see sense A.), after post-classical Latin lapis adamantinus (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome), with the adjective being mistaken for a noun in apposition to lapis, and so translated as adamantine's stone, i.e. stone of adamantine.

†A. n.

= adamant n. 1a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > other miscellaneous minerals > [noun]

adamanteOE

adamantinec1225

adamant stonea1387

chrysocoll1590

chrysocolla1600

aloe1601

Scythian stone1608

diaspore1802

sideroclepte1814

allagite1823

spherulite1823

aluminide1826

rhodalite1836

aikinite1843

alvite1855

xanthitane1856

belonite1865

aenigmatite1868

opacite1875

viridite1879

neocyanite1882

sideronatrite1882

wittite1924

niggliite1936

anthonyite1963

perryite1965

KREEP1971

c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 546 (MED) Ha is heardre iheortet þen adamantines stan & mare amead, ȝef ha mei, þen is meadschipe seolf.

B. adj.

a. Made, or having the qualities, of adamant (adamant n. 1a); unable to be broken or dissolved; unbreakable; impenetrable. Also figurative and in figurative contexts (cf. adamant n. 1b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [adjective] > very

iron-hardOE

bone?a1300

adamantinea1382

stony?1523

adamant1535

steel-harda1560

buff-hard1589

steely1596

diamantine1605

steela1607

rocked1610

Brazil1635

adamantean1671

osseousa1682

iron1708

ferreous1774

rock-likea1793

cast iron1886

bone-hard1924

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective] > like hard substance

adamantinea1382

rock-like1595

unmalleable1606

immarbled1641

iron-bound1648

inflexible1698

cast iron1829

teak-built1847

granitic1862

inelastic1867

petrified1870

ossified1901

shatter-proof1936

sclerotic1965

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xvii. 1 The synne of Jude writen is with an irene pointel, in an adamantyne nail [L. in ungue adamantino], grauen out vp on the brede of ther herte.

a1425 (a1382) Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) 70 He seeth..the Lord stondynge vpon the dawbed wal and the adamauntyn [L. super murum litum vel adamantinum].

1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 18 That set a fire with piercing flames euen hearts adamantine.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. viii. sig. G2 Vnlesse the Destin's adamantine band Should tie my teeth, I cannot choose but bite.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 21 How impetrable hee was in mollyfying the adamantinest tiranny of mankinde.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 39 To the end it might be a State Adamantine..that is, invincible.

1662 H. More Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Pref. Gen. p. xxvi These are the Adamantine Laws and Tyes of Religion.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 646 Three folds were Brass Three Iron, three of Adamantine Rock.

1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 581 To count them all, demands a thousand Tongues, A Throat of Brass, and Adamantine Lungs.

1727 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (ed. 13) 68 Vertue is an Adamantine Mountain, and Invincible Fortress.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 324 Leviathan..Turns to the stroke his adamantine scales.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 70 The adamantine chain of the logic.

1872 C. D. Warner Saunterings 260 These peasants, who are fooled by the mountebank and attracted by the piles of adamantine gingerbread.

c1900 H. Clews Wall Street Point of View i. ix. 65 Founded upon rock of the most adamantine quality.

1982 V. N. McIntyre Wrath of Khan ii. 54 He put me here, in adamantine chains, to guard a barren rock.

1996 T. Clancy Executive Orders iii. 52 They would have carried over into the next segment, but the rules in the White House were adamantine.

b. figurative. That cannot be easily overcome or defeated; rigid, unyielding; unwavering, immovable; (now esp.) refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > [adjective]

stallc1275

unflichinga1340

adviseda1393

affirmed1440

constant1481

resolved1518

resolute1522

well-settled?1532

ratified1533

unbashed1536

bent1548

well-resolved1565

unabashed1571

determinate1587

undaunted1587

peremptory1589

confirmed1594

decretal1608

pight1608

intent1610

definitivea1616

unshrinkinga1616

naylessa1618

pitched1642

decisive1658

martyrly1659

certain1667

fell1667

decretory1674

martyrial1678

decretorian1679

invariable1696

unflinching1728

hell-bent1731

decided1767

determined1773

iron-headed1787

adamantine1788

unwincing1802

stick-at-nothing1805

adamant1816

hard-set1818

rock-like1833

bound1844

do-or-die1851

unbased1860

focused1888

capable de tout1899

purposive1903

go-for-broke1946

hard rock1947

take-no-shit1992

1788 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXIII. 734 He was adamantine upon the subject; every thing he had heard rather tending to convince him a Committee of Inquiry was necessary.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 167 A risk which severely tried even the adamantine fortitude of Cromwell.

1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies ii. 129 The victorious truth and adamantine purity of a woman.

1871 Ladies' Repository Mar. 191/1 I thought this last information would soften the young man, but he was adamantine.

1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio iv. xxx. 435 I dreaded that he would be less lucky or less adamantine when spring came.

1980 Antiquaries Jrnl. 60 299 A bulldog cleric of adamantine disposition.

2002 P. Lake in P. Lake & M. Questier Antichrist's Lewd Hat x. 414 It is her adamantine virtue that saves Hippolito from betraying his wife.

2004 J. G. Dunne Nothing Lost i. iii. 130 He was as dome as a post, as well as adamantine, and..he had antagonized Tracy from the get-go.

†2. Having the characteristic property of lodestone (cf. adamant n. 2a); magnetic. Frequently figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [adjective]

tolling?c1225

ticinga1400

allectivec1487

illecebrous1531

alluring1534

tracting1535

wooing1549

enticing1553

training1557

tittling1560

luring1570

adamantine1581

baiting1585

winning1596

attractive1600

adamantic1605

adamantive1605

enticeable1607

soliciting1608

magnetic1611

invitinga1616

allurant1631

inescating1633

invitative1634

magnetical1638

invitatory1646

tractive1658

odalisque1837

Pied Piper1869

lureful1887

follow-me1888

luresome1889

come-hitherish1901

come-hither1905

come-hithery1919

invitational1922

come-hithering1935

1581 B. Rich Don Simonides I. sig. B4 Thy Speeches are Adamantine, they wyll drawe Yron.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 69 Embrawne your soft-skin'd enclosure with Adamantine dust, that it may draw nothing but steele vnto it.

1604 T. Dekker Magnificent Entertainm. sig. A3 All mens eyes were presently turnd to the North..like the poynts of so many Geometricall needles, through a fixed & Adamantine desire.

1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 10 The eyes..those adamantine Orbes which attract affection to us.

1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xi. 15) iii. 59 The world hath an Adamantine force to draw mens hearts to it.

1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I ii. 79 The obedient Steel with living instinct moves, And veers for ever to the pole it loves. ‘Hail, adamantine Steel! magnetic Lord!’

3. Chiefly Mineralogy. Of a lustre: characteristic of transparent or translucent minerals with a high refractive index, such as diamond. Also more widely: having such a lustre, bright and shiny.

ΚΠ

1700 R. Blackmore Song of Moses in Paraphr. Job 192 Let him..lift on high his Adamantine Shield, Whose brighter Lustre drowns the waining Sun.]

1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 137 Lustre 2. 3. adamantine.

1898 Mineral Mag. 12 47 Brownish or yellow monoclinic crystals with a strong adamantine lustre.

1943 Amer. Mineralogist 28 538 The atelestite comprised adamantine sulfur-yellow crystals of characteristic habit.

1974 W. R. Hamilton et al. Hamlyn Guide Minerals Rocks & Fossils (1989) 11/2 A greasy lustre is often caused by minute irregularities in the surface which, if perfectly smooth, would give an adamantine or resinous lustre.

2002 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 10 Sept. 3 Cheah..combines the fluidity and hemp-like textures of Chinese brush techniques..with the unique kneaded craggy surface and adamantine sheen.

Compounds

adamantine spar n. [compare French spath adamantin (1786 or earlier)] now rare = corundum n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > corundum or emery

adamantine spar1786

flour-emery1884

the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > corundum group A2 03 > corundum

corundum1728

adamantine spar1786

corindon1802

corundite1861

1786 Monthly Rev. 75 App. 500 The ordinary and Syrian garnets, the amethyst, and the adamantine spar of Bergman.

1809 Weekly Entertainer 19 June 484 I discovered the same calx..in a species of adamantine spar from the distant region of Thibet.

1916 A. J. Moses & C. L. Parsons Elements Mineral., Crystallogr. & Blowpipe Anal. (ed. 5) xviii. 413 Adamantine spar and emery are important abrasive materials.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	adamantine
释义	adamantinen.adj. Brit. /ˌadəˈmantʌɪn/, U.S. /ˌædəˈmænˌtaɪn/, /ˌædəˈmæntn/, /ˌædəˈmænˌtin/ Forms: Middle English adamantyne, Middle English adamauntyn, Middle English– adamantine. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French adamantin; Latin adamantinus. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French adamantin (French adamantin ) of or resembling adamant or diamond (13th cent. in Anglo-Norman; also 16th cent. in figurative use of the heart) and its etymon classical Latin adamantinus of or resembling adamant (especially as typifying hardness) or diamond < ancient Greek ἀδαμάντινος of steel, hard as adamant < ἀδαμάντ- , ἀδάμας adamant n. + -ινος -ine suffix². Compare ( < Latin) Old High German adamantīn, also (with suffix substitution) adamantisk.In adamantines stan (see sense A.), after post-classical Latin lapis adamantinus (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome), with the adjective being mistaken for a noun in apposition to lapis, and so translated as adamantine's stone, i.e. stone of adamantine. †A. n. = adamant n. 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > other miscellaneous minerals > [noun] adamanteOE adamantinec1225 adamant stonea1387 chrysocoll1590 chrysocolla1600 aloe1601 Scythian stone1608 diaspore1802 sideroclepte1814 allagite1823 spherulite1823 aluminide1826 rhodalite1836 aikinite1843 alvite1855 xanthitane1856 belonite1865 aenigmatite1868 opacite1875 viridite1879 neocyanite1882 sideronatrite1882 wittite1924 niggliite1936 anthonyite1963 perryite1965 KREEP1971 c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 546 (MED) Ha is heardre iheortet þen adamantines stan & mare amead, ȝef ha mei, þen is meadschipe seolf. B. adj. 1. a. Made, or having the qualities, of adamant (adamant n. 1a); unable to be broken or dissolved; unbreakable; impenetrable. Also figurative and in figurative contexts (cf. adamant n. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [adjective] > very iron-hardOE bone?a1300 adamantinea1382 stony?1523 adamant1535 steel-harda1560 buff-hard1589 steely1596 diamantine1605 steela1607 rocked1610 Brazil1635 adamantean1671 osseousa1682 iron1708 ferreous1774 rock-likea1793 cast iron1886 bone-hard1924 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective] > like hard substance adamantinea1382 rock-like1595 unmalleable1606 immarbled1641 iron-bound1648 inflexible1698 cast iron1829 teak-built1847 granitic1862 inelastic1867 petrified1870 ossified1901 shatter-proof1936 sclerotic1965 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xvii. 1 The synne of Jude writen is with an irene pointel, in an adamantyne nail [L. in ungue adamantino], grauen out vp on the brede of ther herte. a1425 (a1382) Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) 70 He seeth..the Lord stondynge vpon the dawbed wal and the adamauntyn [L. super murum litum vel adamantinum]. 1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 18 That set a fire with piercing flames euen hearts adamantine. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. viii. sig. G2 Vnlesse the Destin's adamantine band Should tie my teeth, I cannot choose but bite. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 21 How impetrable hee was in mollyfying the adamantinest tiranny of mankinde. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 39 To the end it might be a State Adamantine..that is, invincible. 1662 H. More Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Pref. Gen. p. xxvi These are the Adamantine Laws and Tyes of Religion. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 646 Three folds were Brass Three Iron, three of Adamantine Rock. View more context for this quotation 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 581 To count them all, demands a thousand Tongues, A Throat of Brass, and Adamantine Lungs. 1727 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (ed. 13) 68 Vertue is an Adamantine Mountain, and Invincible Fortress. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 324 Leviathan..Turns to the stroke his adamantine scales. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 70 The adamantine chain of the logic. 1872 C. D. Warner Saunterings 260 These peasants, who are fooled by the mountebank and attracted by the piles of adamantine gingerbread. c1900 H. Clews Wall Street Point of View i. ix. 65 Founded upon rock of the most adamantine quality. 1982 V. N. McIntyre Wrath of Khan ii. 54 He put me here, in adamantine chains, to guard a barren rock. 1996 T. Clancy Executive Orders iii. 52 They would have carried over into the next segment, but the rules in the White House were adamantine. b. figurative. That cannot be easily overcome or defeated; rigid, unyielding; unwavering, immovable; (now esp.) refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > [adjective] stallc1275 unflichinga1340 adviseda1393 affirmed1440 constant1481 resolved1518 resolute1522 well-settled?1532 ratified1533 unbashed1536 bent1548 well-resolved1565 unabashed1571 determinate1587 undaunted1587 peremptory1589 confirmed1594 decretal1608 pight1608 intent1610 definitivea1616 unshrinkinga1616 naylessa1618 pitched1642 decisive1658 martyrly1659 certain1667 fell1667 decretory1674 martyrial1678 decretorian1679 invariable1696 unflinching1728 hell-bent1731 decided1767 determined1773 iron-headed1787 adamantine1788 unwincing1802 stick-at-nothing1805 adamant1816 hard-set1818 rock-like1833 bound1844 do-or-die1851 unbased1860 focused1888 capable de tout1899 purposive1903 go-for-broke1946 hard rock1947 take-no-shit1992 1788 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXIII. 734 He was adamantine upon the subject; every thing he had heard rather tending to convince him a Committee of Inquiry was necessary. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 167 A risk which severely tried even the adamantine fortitude of Cromwell. 1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies ii. 129 The victorious truth and adamantine purity of a woman. 1871 Ladies' Repository Mar. 191/1 I thought this last information would soften the young man, but he was adamantine. 1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio iv. xxx. 435 I dreaded that he would be less lucky or less adamantine when spring came. 1980 Antiquaries Jrnl. 60 299 A bulldog cleric of adamantine disposition. 2002 P. Lake in P. Lake & M. Questier Antichrist's Lewd Hat x. 414 It is her adamantine virtue that saves Hippolito from betraying his wife. 2004 J. G. Dunne Nothing Lost i. iii. 130 He was as dome as a post, as well as adamantine, and..he had antagonized Tracy from the get-go. †2. Having the characteristic property of lodestone (cf. adamant n. 2a); magnetic. Frequently figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [adjective] tolling?c1225 ticinga1400 allectivec1487 illecebrous1531 alluring1534 tracting1535 wooing1549 enticing1553 training1557 tittling1560 luring1570 adamantine1581 baiting1585 winning1596 attractive1600 adamantic1605 adamantive1605 enticeable1607 soliciting1608 magnetic1611 invitinga1616 allurant1631 inescating1633 invitative1634 magnetical1638 invitatory1646 tractive1658 odalisque1837 Pied Piper1869 lureful1887 follow-me1888 luresome1889 come-hitherish1901 come-hither1905 come-hithery1919 invitational1922 come-hithering1935 1581 B. Rich Don Simonides I. sig. B4 Thy Speeches are Adamantine, they wyll drawe Yron. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 69 Embrawne your soft-skin'd enclosure with Adamantine dust, that it may draw nothing but steele vnto it. 1604 T. Dekker Magnificent Entertainm. sig. A3 All mens eyes were presently turnd to the North..like the poynts of so many Geometricall needles, through a fixed & Adamantine desire. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 10 The eyes..those adamantine Orbes which attract affection to us. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xi. 15) iii. 59 The world hath an Adamantine force to draw mens hearts to it. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I ii. 79 The obedient Steel with living instinct moves, And veers for ever to the pole it loves. ‘Hail, adamantine Steel! magnetic Lord!’ 3. Chiefly Mineralogy. Of a lustre: characteristic of transparent or translucent minerals with a high refractive index, such as diamond. Also more widely: having such a lustre, bright and shiny. ΚΠ 1700 R. Blackmore Song of Moses in Paraphr. Job 192 Let him..lift on high his Adamantine Shield, Whose brighter Lustre drowns the waining Sun.] 1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 137 Lustre 2. 3. adamantine. 1898 Mineral Mag. 12 47 Brownish or yellow monoclinic crystals with a strong adamantine lustre. 1943 Amer. Mineralogist 28 538 The atelestite comprised adamantine sulfur-yellow crystals of characteristic habit. 1974 W. R. Hamilton et al. Hamlyn Guide Minerals Rocks & Fossils (1989) 11/2 A greasy lustre is often caused by minute irregularities in the surface which, if perfectly smooth, would give an adamantine or resinous lustre. 2002 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 10 Sept. 3 Cheah..combines the fluidity and hemp-like textures of Chinese brush techniques..with the unique kneaded craggy surface and adamantine sheen. Compounds adamantine spar n. [compare French spath adamantin (1786 or earlier)] now rare = corundum n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > corundum or emery adamantine spar1786 flour-emery1884 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > corundum group A2 03 > corundum corundum1728 adamantine spar1786 corindon1802 corundite1861 1786 Monthly Rev. 75 App. 500 The ordinary and Syrian garnets, the amethyst, and the adamantine spar of Bergman. 1809 Weekly Entertainer 19 June 484 I discovered the same calx..in a species of adamantine spar from the distant region of Thibet. 1916 A. J. Moses & C. L. Parsons Elements Mineral., Crystallogr. & Blowpipe Anal. (ed. 5) xviii. 413 Adamantine spar and emery are important abrasive materials. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.c1225
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