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Castalian, kas-tā′li-an, adj. pertaining to Castalia, a fountain in Parnassus, sacred to Apollo and the Muses.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

This continued until 1891 when the Palladium finally absorbed the Castalian, the annual of the independents, and Res Gestae, the law annual, and became at last a representative University publication.

From The University of Michigan by Shaw, Wilfred

Ah! must I then the only minstrel be, Proscribed from tasting your Castalian tea!

From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Bright beams the radiant sun; Clear runs and pure his bright Castalian fountain.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth

Above the Castalian fountain the two peaks of the Ph�driad�, a thousand feet high, stand up magnificently.

From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Hichens, Robert (Robert Smythe)