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Icarus Gr. Myth.|ˈɪkərəs|
The name of the son of Dædalus, who attempted to fly by means of artificial wings fastened with wax (see Icarian a.1): used allusively.
[1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 53, I feare..in the height of my thoughts soaring too high, to fall with wofull repenting Icarus.] 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. vi. 56 Then follow thou thy desp'rate Syre of Creet, Thou Icarus, thy Life to me is sweet. Ibid. vii. 16 There di'de My Icarus, my Blossome, in his pride. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. I3v, These insolent fancies are but Icarus feathers, whose wanton waxe melted against the sun. 1694D'Urfey Don Quix. ii. Ep. Ded. sig. A1v, The roving Icarus in Poetry, By you is levell'd, when he soars too high. 1924B. Russell (title) Icarus, or, The future of science. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Sept. 714/2 Much that he [sc. D'Annunzio] has given is not pure gold, but decorative lumber comparable to the ill-assorted trophies of the Vittoriale from which, an Icarus who has ceased to fly, he makes well-calculated sallies. |