Cadmean
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Cadmean
1595–1605; < Latin Cadmē ( us ) (< Greek Kadmeîos of Cadmus ) + -an
Example Sentences
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Ye Cadmean Bacchants, ye have accomplished a glorious victory, illustrious, yet for woe and tears.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
It would be a Cadmean victory in which the victor would suffer as much as the vanquished.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Edward John Hardy
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
But with industrial panic in the air the victory threatened to be of the Cadmean sort, and a scowl of anxiety gathered between his eyes.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
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
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