Cadmean

[ kad-mee-uhn ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or like Cadmus.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cadmean¹

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

Example Sentences

All victories in war are Cadmean; not only from their cost in blood and treasure, but because we are in very truth “the members of one body,” “redeemed with Christ’s blood.”

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Yet he who thought he ought to have a Cadmean victory, carried on his conquest.

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Cadmean, kad-mē′an, adj. relating to Cadmus, who introduced the original Greek alphabet.

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It would be a Cadmean victory in which the victor would suffer as much as the vanquished.

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The important territory near mount Taygetus belonged at that time to Amyclæ, and all this country was still in the possession of the Achæans, with whom some Minyans from Lemnos, and Cadmean Greeks, known by the name of Ægidæ, had united themselves.

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