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Daedal
DAE'DAL
,Adj.
1.
Various; variegated.2.
Skilful.Definition 2024
daedal
daedal
See also: dædal
English
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Adjective
daedal (comparative more daedal, superlative most daedal)
- Skilful, ingenious, cunning.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i:
- His daedale hand would faile, and greatly faint, / And her perfections with his error taint [...].
- J. Philips
- The daedal hand of Nature.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
- Barquentine went into a form of a trance, the well-heads of his eyes appearing to cloud over and become opaque like miniature sargassos, of dull chalky-blue – the cataract veil – for it seemed that he was trying to remember the daedal days of his adolescence.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i: