Crossword clues for adamantine
adamantine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adamantine \Ad`a*man"tine\, a. [L. adamantinus, Gr. ?.]
Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
(Min.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from Latin adamantinus "hard as steel, inflexible," from Greek adamantinos, from adamas (see adamant (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being break, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. 2 Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
WordNet
adj. consisting of or having the hardness of adamant
having the hardness of a diamond
not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendancy" [syn: adamant, inexorable, intransigent]
Wikipedia
Adamantine is a veneer developed by The Celluloid Manufacturing Company of New York City, covered by U.S. Patent number 232,037, dated September 7, 1880. Seth Thomas Clock Company purchased the right to use the adamantine veneer in 1880. This veneer is sometimes referred to as celluloid and is found on clocks in a wide variety of colors that simulate marble or alabaster.
Seth Thomas clocks used Adamantine to create a Marbaline veneer for their clocks.
Adamantine can refer to:
- Adamant, mythical material adamant or adamantine
- Adamantine lustre, non-metallic, brilliant light reflecting and transmitting properties of minerals
- Adamantine spar, mineral, a variety of corundum
Usage examples of "adamantine".
Of the dark world, ten thousand spheres diffuse Their lustre through its adamantine gates.
For all who knew and loved him then perceived That there was drawn an adamantine veil Between his heart and mind,--both unrelieved Wrought in his brain and bosom separate strife.
Warped into adamantine fretwork, hung And filled with frozen light the chasms below.
Not Jove: while yet his frown shook Heaven ay, when His adversary from adamantine chains Cursed him, he trembled like a slave.
Sheets of immeasurable fire, and veins Of gold and stone, and adamantine iron.
Only tomorrow, Adamantine Employer, part of the multitude peels off for New Athens.
I urge you not to trust his Adamantine face and his RhAdamantine justice.
Her adamantine chain mail was a glossy black, her long white hair neatly braided.
Shaped like an enormous spider and forged from solid adamantine, it balanced on eight curved legs.
Leaping down from the broken stalagmite, Andzrel strode toward the captain who commanded them, a slender female in adamantine armor with white hair drawn up in a topknot.
Keeping that in mind, Gromph turned as he heard footsteps approaching from behind the adamantine doors.
A single adamantine bridge, a narrow slab of metal without guardrails and wide enough for only two or three men abreast, spanned the moat.
Gromph saw that the dead ogres and their battering ram, which he had seen while scrying the House, no longer lay before the adamantine doors.
He would face everything that protected the House whether he attempted the adamantine doors or the lizard stable wall.
He sat cross-legged on a large rock, near the far end of the adamantine bridge.