Idaean
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Idaean
1580–90; < Latin Īdae ( us ) (< Greek Īdaîos Idaean) + -an
Example Sentences
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Foremost in the collection is the reclining Idaean Hercules.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let them live together for our enrichment; they are not rivals like the Idaean Three.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
Else, having shorn, they smear their bodies o'er With acrid oil-lees, and mix silver-scum And native sulphur and Idaean pitch, Wax mollified with ointment, and therewith Sea-leek, strong hellebores, bitumen black.
From The Georgics by Virgil
Just so the story goes That from the Idaean mountain-tops are seen Dispersed fires upon the break of day Which thence combine, as 'twere, into one ball And form an orb.
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard
Her the wide nations, after antique rite, Do name Idaean Mother, giving her Escort of Phrygian bands, since first, they say, From out those regions 'twas that grain began Through all the world.
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard
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