Cadmean

American  

[kad-mee-uhn] / kædˈmi ən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or like Cadmus.

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Etymology

Origin of Cadmean

1595–1605; < Latin Cadmē ( us ) (< Greek Kadmeîos of Cadmus ) + -an

Example Sentences

But with industrial panic in the air the victory threatened to be of the Cadmean sort, and a scowl of anxiety gathered between his eyes.

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.

It may rear labour, but it cannot by any possibility create it, after such a fashion as the crop that sprang from the sowing of the Cadmean teeth.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various

The early history of nations which have a history, usually begins with the coming of a colony, whether it be Phoenician, Cadmean, or Trojan.

From The Future of the Colored Race in America Being an article in the Presbyterian quarterly review of July, 1862 by Aikman, William

And where'er he passed He sowed the dragon's teeth, and everywhere Cadmean broods of armèd men arose And followed, followed on his fiery trail.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

Popular poetry and music, ballads and legends, wit and originality have disappeared before the barbaric intellectuality of our Cadmean idolatry.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various