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promethean
Word definitions for promethean in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Promethean \Pro*me"the*an\, a. [L. Prometh?us: cf. F. prom['e]th['e]en.] Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus . ``Promethean fire.'' --Shak. Having a life-giving quality; inspiring.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Promethean may refer to: Prometheus , a character from Greek mythology, who was punished by the gods for stealing fire from the heavens to give to humans "Prometheus", an 1816 poem by Lord Byron Prometheus Unbound , a Greek play by Aeschylus Prometheus ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Prometheus + -an . Before the introduction of modern matches (see lucifer ), promethean was the name given (early 19c.) to small glass tubes full of sulphuric acid, surrounded by an inflammable mixture, which ignited when pressed and gave off ...
Usage examples of promethean.
Promethean found it, and signals broadcast from New York and London to the relay ships beyond the Heaviside layer brought little hope.
Shrewdest Ones have announced that the human commander Sulu will be executed at two-thirds orbit today, unless the Federation Council agrees to an immediate lifting of the dilithium embargo, a restoration of the rights of Beta Promethean trading ships to travel throughout the galaxy, including within Federation territory, and a penalty of two hundred and fifty thousand kerns paid to the High Conclave in exchange for the return of the spies.
Ristelli, too, occupies a place in the dome of the anteroom, a mangy gray ghost slipping back into the world, and Causey is there as well, tumbling toward its center where, almost buried in light, Quires hangs in his eternal torment, a promethean Christ yielding to a barbaric sacrifice.
Causey is there as well, tumbling toward its center where, almost buried in light, Quires hangs in his eternal torment, a promethean Christ yielding to a barbaric sacrifice.
The boys got away from dinner, and, after deep consultation, agreed upon a course of conduct, which was to commiserate with Farmer Blaize loudly, and make themselves look as much like the public as it was possible for two young malefactors to look, one of whom already felt Adrian's enormous A devouring his back with the fierceness of the Promethean eagle, and isolating him forever from mankind.
As Sharon Bertsch McGrayne notes in her absorbing history of industrial chemistry, Prometheans in the Lab, when employees at one plant developed irreversible delusions, a spokesman blandly informed reporters: “These men probably went insane because they worked too hard.
It is now two in the morning, and for some time the terrapin has been warring with the canvasback duck, whose eagle-like beak tears at my Promethean liver.
It was dark outside, as the Promethean sun was in the sky only a few hours each day.
Prometheans are only the descendants of the old Ecological Warfare Corps.
The modern Prometheans are only the descendants of the old Ecological Warfare Corps.