Gadarene

/ ˈɡædəˌriːn /

adjective

C19: via Late Latin from Greek Gadarēnos , of Gadara (Palestine), alluding to the Biblical Gadarene swine (Matthew 8:28ff.)

But the evidence in favour of the Gadarene miracle is as good as that for any other.

A worse thing, surely, would have been to have gone hurtling over the precipice with some Gadarene swine!

Lower and lower sank her gunwale as we dropped aboard her, with no more care than the Gadarene swine whose fate we courted.

Sylvia cried after him to remember the fate of the Gadarene shrine and to avoid going down-stairs too fast.

“Surely the Gadarene swine went downhill,” put in Lady Caroline in a gently enquiring voice.

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