NOUN
- (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus
How To Use Daedal In A Sentence
- Although Time's editors were not in every instance necessarily responsible for the logodaedaly ascribed to them: the magazine served as the medium through which these coinages became known to millions. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
- To this angry message Theseus returned a very gentle answer, excusing himself that he could not deliver up Daedalus, who was nearly related to him, being his cousin-german, his mother being The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- the daedal hand of nature
- So, says Daedalus. imagine a Cexspex lens exposed to a bright directional beam of light.
- The 12-year-old from Kingston, Jamaica, showed no mercy in demolishing words like "" daedal '' (intricate) and "" parrhesia '' (frank speech). A Daedal Test Of Parrhesia
- The Labyrinth was a kind of game created by Daedalus for King Minos of Crete, but the maze served the serious purpose of corralling the violent Minotaur.
- Different plants can represent various styles of environment; convey different kinds of culture and create daedal inside scenery.
- _ Steering to Cumae, where the Sibyl dwells, Aeneas seeks her cave, whose entrance is barred by bronzen gates, on which is represented the story of Daedalus, -- the first bird man, -- who, escaping from the Labyrinth at Crete, gratefully laid his wings on this altar. The Book of the Epic
- Many ancient Greek myths take their location from Minoan Crete more than ten centuries before Plato. Daedalus, the ancient scientist, was supposedly the architect of the palace at Knossos.
- The title notwithstanding, Catlin's version actually centers on Icarus's father, the legendary architect and inventor Daedalus. Chicago Reader