daedal
See also: dædal
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin daedalus, from Ancient Greek δαίδαλος (daídalos, “skillful”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdiːdəl/
Adjective
daedal (comparative more daedal, superlative most daedal)
- Skilful, ingenious, cunning.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- His daedale hand would faile, and greatly faint, / And her perfections with his error taint […]
- 1708, [John Philips], “(please specify the page)”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- The daedal hand of Nature.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
- 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.