adjective
Etymology
Origin of daedal
First recorded in 1580–90; from Latin daedalus “skillful, dexterous,” from Greek daídalos “cunning, cunningly made,” equivalent to daidál(lein) “to work with skill” + -os adjective suffix
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A mere haircut will no longer salvage the graying mop atop, aside and below his daedal pate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let those who to this daedal Valley throng And by my tumid Ashes pass along, Let them be glad with this consoling Thought: I got a Market Value for my Song.
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin
Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it—dark without the day-beams of the Latonian Charioteer, darker yet without the daedal Smile of the God of the Other Bow!
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
Or how, when thus restored, may daedal Earth Foster and plenish with her ancient food, Which, kind by kind, she offers unto each?
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard
So, Bodily beauty, where Love is priestess, is a daedal spur to the loftiest worship.
From Hints for Lovers by T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold) Haultain
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