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Rhadamanthus|rædəˈmænθəs|
Also anglicized 6–7 Rhadamant, 7 -manth.
[L., a. Gr. Ῥαδάµανθος.]
In Greek mythology, a son of Zeus and Europa and one of the judges in the lower world. Hence used allusively for: An inflexible judge; a rigorous or severe master. Also transf.
1582Stanyhurst æneis, etc. (Arb.) 155 In wisdom Salomon,..For iustice Radamanthus: in equitye woorthye Lycurgus. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 67 Petty diuels, and cruell Rhadamants. 1603S. Daniel Def. Ryme H, For who hath constituted him to be the Radamanthus thus to torture sillables, and adiudge them their perpetuall doome? 1634Massinger Very Woman ii. (1655) 26 Yirk him soundly. 'Twas Rhadamanths sentence. 1656Blount Glossogr., Rhadamant, taken for a severe Judge. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such xvii. 300 A wondrously delicate machine for testing sovereigns, a shrewd implacable little steel Rhadamanthus, that..lifts and balances each in turn.
Comb.1828Eng. in France II. 337 A certain Rhadamanthus-looking personage, who listened..with all the impartial and unmeaning suavity of the bench.
Hence † Rhadaˈmanthean, † -ian, Rhadaˈmanthine adjs., resembling or characteristic of Rhadamanthus; inflexibly rigorous or severe. So Rhadaˈmanthously adv., with the severity of a Rhadamanthus.
1655J. Owen Vind. Evang. xxiii. 484 The Heathens Apprehension of Rhadamanthean Righteousnesse. 1833Fraser's Mag. VII. 4 Rejecting whatever deserves such a fate with Rhadamanthian sternness of purpose. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. Wks. 1900 V. 220 Severe Rhadamanthine judges are not to be melted by such trumpery. 1859Dr. John Brown Lett. (1907) 129 All this will come before you and you will deal with it Rhadamanthously. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 38 Rhadamanthine law. |