Cadmean
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Cadmean
1595–1605; < Latin Cadmē ( us ) (< Greek Kadmeîos of Cadmus ) + -an
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Mr Knapps, let the Cadmean art proceed forthwith.”
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat
If not blind, they were usually profound strangers to the Cadmean mystery.
From Bricks Without Straw by Albion Winegar Tourgée
Of the two great centres of legends, Thebes with its Cadmean population figures as a military stronghold, and Orchomenus, the home of the Minyae, as an enterprising commercial city.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
What a spectacle if the Lutherans would oppose each other as the Cadmean brethren!
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
In any case, we can hardly err in accepting Dr. Verral's judgment that "the story of Aeschylus may be, and in the outlines probably is, the genuine epic legend of the Cadmean war."
From Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
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