Cadmean
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Cadmean
1595–1605; < Latin Cadmē ( us ) (< Greek Kadmeîos of Cadmus ) + -an
Example Sentences
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Cadmean, kad-mē′an, adj. relating to Cadmus, who introduced the original Greek alphabet.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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
It may rear labour, but it cannot by any possibility create it, after such a fashion as the crop that sprang from the sowing of the Cadmean teeth.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various
Ancient realm of Capet, Valois, and Bourbon—motherland of Du Guesclin and Bayard—you may well be proud of your Cadmean offspring!
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
He was everywhere defeated, or his victories were Cadmean, as disastrous as defeats.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
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