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单词 oedipodean
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Oedipodeanadj.

Brit. /iːˌdɪpəˈdɪən/, /ˌiːdɪpəˈdɪən/, U.S. /ɛˌdɪpəˈdiən/, /iˌdɪpəˈdiən/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek Οἰδιπόδειος , -an suffix.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek Οἰδιπόδειος of Oedipus ( < ancient Greek Οἰδιποδ- , Οἰδίπους Oedipus n. + -ειος , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix. Compare earlier Oedipean adj.
Of or relating to Oedipus; designating or reminiscent of the legend of Oedipus; = Oedipean adj.In quot. 1827 perhaps with sense: requiring an Oedipus to decipher it.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [adjective] > of characters from classical mythology
Briarean1579
Pegasean1590
Tantalean?1605
Pegasarian1607
centoculated1628
Oedipean1629
Typhoean1667
Oedipodean1827
Laocoön1910
1827 J. Symmons Let. 27 Aug. in E. H. Barker Parriana (1828) I. 519 In endeavouring to decipher his hand, which was perfectly Œdipodean, I was always directed by the exactness of the style.
1887 A. W. Verrall Aeschylus's Seven against Thebes Introd. p. x The Oedipodean legend in Aeschylus is closely connected with two powers of religion.
1888 J. R. Lowell Let. 6 July (1932) 322 The third stage of the Oedipodean riddle.
1918 H. N. Bowman (title) The crimes of the Oedipodean cycle.
1947 E. F. Watling Sophocles' Theban Plays 13 Each of the three plays deals with a situation in the Oedipodean family history.
1968 H. J. Schonfield Those Incredible Christians xiii. 202 Athenagoras similarly speaks of the heathen charges of ‘atheism, Thyestean feasts and Oedipodean intercourse’.
1993 Speculum 68 226 We cannot define in causal terms the relation between the poem's central love affair and the fortunes of Troy, or between the fall of the city and the disaster of Oedipodean Thebes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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