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dædal, a. Chiefly poetical.|ˈdiːdəl|
Also 6–7 (9) dædale, 7 dedall, 7–9 dedal.
[ad. L. dædal-us, a. Gr. δαίδαλος skilful, cunningly wrought, variegated, etc.: see prec.]
1. Skilful, cunning to invent or fashion.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. Prol. ii, All were it Zeuxis or Praxiteles, His dædale hand would faile and greatly faynt. c1630Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 36 Out-run the wind-out-running dædale hare. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 346 Here the dashing Blind Harry the Harper had hung up his dædal harp. 1872Blackie Lays Highl. 33 By the dædal hand of Titan Nature piled.
2. Displaying artistic cunning or fertility of invention; maze-like; = Dædalian 1.
c1630Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 42 Ye, who with curious numbers, sweetest art, Frame dedal nets our beauty to surprize. 1746J. Warton Ode iii. (R.), Here ancient art her dædal fancies play'd In the quaint mazes of the crisped roof. 1836Landor Pericles & A. Wks. 1846 II. 372 The dedal dance is spun and woven.
3. Of the earth, etc.; ‘Manifold in works’; hence, varied, variously adorned.
A vague poetic use after Lucretius (i. 7 ‘dædala tellus’; v. 234 ‘natura dædala rerum’).
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. x. 45 Then doth the dædale earth throw forth to thee Out of her fruitfull lap abondant flowres. 1745T. Warton Pleas. Melanch. 248 What dædal landscapes smile! 1817Wordsw. Sequel to ‘Beggars’, For whose free range the dædal earth Was filled with animated toys. 1834D'Israeli Rev. Epick i. xv, The dædal faith of the old world had died. 1864Skeat Uhland's Poems 28 With what dædal fulness Thy beds their blossoms shew!
†4. ? Mazy, labyrinthine; ? changeful. Obs.
1818Keats Endym. iv. 459 Search my most hidden breast! By truth's own tongue, I have no dædale heart!
†5. Bot. = dædaleous, dædalous. Obs.
1793T. Martyn Lang. of Bot., Dædaleum folium, a Dædal leaf. |