Gadarene

/ ˈɡædəˌriːn /

adjective

1. relating to or engaged in a headlong rush

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gadarene¹

C19: via Late Latin from Greek Gadarēnos , of Gadara (Palestine), alluding to the Biblical Gadarene swine (Matthew 8:28ff.)

Example Sentences

But the evidence in favour of the Gadarene miracle is as good as that for any other.

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A worse thing, surely, would have been to have gone hurtling over the precipice with some Gadarene swine!

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Lower and lower sank her gunwale as we dropped aboard her, with no more care than the Gadarene swine whose fate we courted.

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Sylvia cried after him to remember the fate of the Gadarene shrine and to avoid going down-stairs too fast.

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“Surely the Gadarene swine went downhill,” put in Lady Caroline in a gently enquiring voice.

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