Crossword clues for daedal
daedal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Daedal \D[ae]"dal\, Daedalian \D[ae]*dal"ian\, a. [L. daedalus cunningly wrought, fr. Gr. ?; cf. ? to work cunningly. The word also alludes to the mythical D[ae]dalus (Gr. ?, lit., the cunning worker).]
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Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious.
Our bodies decked in our d[ae]dalian arms.
--Chapman.The d[ae]dal hand of Nature.
--J. Philips.The doth the d[ae]dal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers.
--Spenser. Crafty; deceitful. [R.]
--Keats.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "skillful, cunning," from Latin daedalus, from Greek daidalos "skillful, cunningly wrought." Also an anglicized form of the name Daedalus from Greek mythology (1610s).
Wiktionary
a. skilful, ingenious, cunning.
WordNet
adj. complex and ingenious in design or function; "the daedal hand of nature"
n. (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos; to escape the Labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his sone Icarus [syn: Daedalus]
Usage examples of "daedal".
And let it fill the Daedal cups like fire, And from the flower-inwoven soil divine Ye all-triumphant harmonies arise, As dew from earth under the twilight stars: Drink!
Which rules with Daedal harmony a throng Of thoughts and forms, which else senseless and shapeless were.
Like empty cups of wrought and daedal gold, Which mock the lips with air, when they are thirsting.
White roses and daedal creepers, that Miss Carnot had first adorned the walls with, spread now luxuriantly over the lichen-filmed tiles of the roof, and in slender graceful sprays timidly invaded the ghostly cobweb-draped apartments.
There were four principal mages, called Tonn, Daedal, Manus and Aum, and their power grew at the expense of all the others.
Idaean Ganymede, and let it fill the Daedal cups like fire, and from the flower-inwoven soil divine ye all triumphant harmonies arise, as dew from earth under the twilight stars: Drink!