Definition of Gadarene in English:
Gadarene
adjectiveˈɡadəriːnˈɡadəˌrēn
Involving or engaged in a headlong or potentially disastrous rush to do something.
do not follow the Gadarene rush
Example sentencesExamples
- Although we have seen that we can dismiss a Gadarene school hypothesis, this does not necessarily preclude the development of a local satiric outlook.
- A significant, perhaps indeed the most significant, factor in the Gadarene rush to war in 1914 was the rigidity that these mobilization imperatives introduced into both diplomatic and military calculations.
- I imagine that Gadarene parents used the demoniac to scare their children into obedience like we do the boogeyman.
- As we report today, and as we have consistently argued throughout this Gadarene rush towards war, there has to be a justification for any attack.
- We are being joined in the Gadarene rush by none other than the Commission on Social Justice.
- It was a Gadarene rush of highly-educated CEOs and Harvard MBAs.
- If the Government is to persist in this ill conceived Gadarene stratagem, how about a mission statement to complement it, such as ‘flirt with the feckless and woo the worthless.’
- For the record, it was the Tories who started this Gadarene stampede, although they at least have the grace to repent of it now.
Origin
Early 19th century: from New Testament Greek Gadarēnos 'inhabitant of Gadara', with reference to the story of the swine that rushed down a steep cliff into the sea (Matt. 8:28–32).