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Main Entry:  daedal1
Part of Speech:  adj
Definition:  artistically skillful or cunning; ingenious
Etymology:  Greek daidalos 'skillful, cunningly created'

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Main Entry:  daedal2
Part of Speech:  adj
Definition:  rich, intricate; adorned
Etymology:  Greek daidalos 'skillful, cunningly created'

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dae·dal    Audio Help   [deed-l] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.skillful; ingenious.
2.cleverly intricate.
3.diversified.
[Origin: 1580–90; < L daedalus skillful < Gk daídalos, equiv. to daidál(lein) to work with skill + -os adj. suffix]
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dae·dal    Audio Help   (dēd'l)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Ingenious and complex in design or function; intricate.
  2. Finely or skillfully made or employed; artistic.


[Latin daedalus, from Greek daidalos.]

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daedal

adjective
1. complex and ingenious in design or function; "the daedal hand of nature" 

noun
1. (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus [syn: Daedalus] 

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Daedal

D[ae]"dal\, Daedalian \D[ae]*dal"ian\, a. [L. daedalus cunningly wrought, fr. Gr. ?; cf. ? to work cunningly. The word also alludes to the mythical D[ae]dalus (Gr. ?, lit., the cunning worker).]

1. Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious.

Our bodies decked in our d[ae]dalian arms. --Chapman.

The d[ae]dal hand of Nature. --J. Philips.

The doth the d[ae]dal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. --Spenser.

2. Crafty; deceitful. [R.] --Keats.
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