单词 | adamantic |
释义 | adamanticadj. Now rare. Having the nature or properties of adamant; made of adamant; = adamantine adj. 1a. Also figurative.In quot. 1605 with allusion to adamant n. 2a (cf. adamantine adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [adjective] persuasiblea1425 persuasivec1487 persuadable1532 suading1557 persuasory1576 suasory1576 persuading1581 suasive1601 adamantic1605 inducing1606 inducive1611 inductious1620 flexanimous1621 pleaful1625 suasorian1646 psychagogical1822 psychagogic1846 the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [adjective] tolling?c1225 ticinga1400 allectivec1487 illecebrous1531 alluring1534 tracting1535 wooing1549 enticing1553 training1557 tittling1560 luring1570 adamantine1581 baiting1585 winning1596 attractive1600 adamantic1605 adamantive1605 enticeable1607 soliciting1608 magnetic1611 invitinga1616 allurant1631 inescating1633 invitative1634 magnetical1638 invitatory1646 tractive1658 odalisque1837 Pied Piper1869 lureful1887 follow-me1888 luresome1889 come-hitherish1901 come-hither1905 come-hithery1919 invitational1922 come-hithering1935 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. C4 v A siluer tongue..that, when I approach, Within the presence of this demy Goddesse, I may posses an adimanticke power. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 5 Fain would I adventure, To search the hid Attractions, Of magnetic actions, And Adamantick strength. 1792 J. G. W. De Brahm Voice Everlasting Gospel 59 This Substance is of Adamantic Lustre. 1829 R. Wolcott Brief Acct. in S. Kettell Specimens Amer. Poetry I. 23 They entered those awful straits, Where the stream runs through adamantic gates [1725, 1792 adamantine gates]. 1846 Milwaukee (Wisconsin Territory) Daily Courier 31 Mar. Miserable men, cooped up in an adamantic tomb as they were,..relinquished all hopes of life. 1897 Daily Iowa Capital 17 Sept. 1/5 Mr. Weeks aroused himself from his adamantic sleep. 1923 Commerce (Texas) Jrnl. 5 Jan. 2/1 It was a striking picture, this adamantic resistance, personified by the Mohammedan leader, to the plea for the sanctity of life and property laid down by him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1605 |
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