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† hippodame Obs.
[ad. Gr. ἱππόδαµος horse-tamer, but in sense 1, app. confused with hippotame, hippopotamus.]
1. erron. used by Spenser for hippocamp.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. ix. 50 Infernall Hags, Centaurs, feendes, Hippodames. Ibid. iii. xi. 40 His [Neptune's] swift charet..Which foure great Hippodames did draw.
2. A horse-tamer.
1623Cockeram, Hippodame, a Horse breaker.
Hence hiˈppodamist, a horse-tamer; hiˈppodamous a., horse-taming, horse-breaking.
1841S. Warren Ten Thous. a Year ii. x. 293 The present famous hippodamist at Windsor, by touching a nerve in the mouth of a horse, reduces him to helpless docility. 1894Athenæum 1 Sept. 284/3 The hippodamous gentry who receive more or less attention from him. [See hippological.] |