Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to the Argonauts.
[…] twice she slew the dragon, saved the Argonautical adventure, and killed the usurping king Pelias.
2007, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig, Granddaughter of the Sun: A Study of Euripides’ Medea, page 943 more examples
So Hercules Thebanus, Son of Amphitruo, Son of Alcæus, will have for his Son one who was also, after his Great-Grandfather, called Alcæus, begotten of a Servant Maid of Jardanus, some short time after the Argonautical Expedition, in Memory whereof his Son might be called Argon.
1714, Thomas Hearne, Ductor Historicus: or, a short system of Universal History and an Introduction to the Study of itThey are nearly all "heeled." That is a phrase of Argonautical invention which saves tedious explanation, which means in Texas that one is armed, and in California that he has money.
1893, James William Steele, Old Californian Days, page 150In the city of Troy, whither our Argonautical voyages had carried us, we found Helen and that lamentable Cressid who was to Chaucer the feminine paradox, untenably fantastic but so devastatingly actual, the crystal ideal—flawed; and to Shakespeare the inevitable trull, flayed to show her physiological machinery and the logical conclusion of every the most heartrendingly ingenuous gesture of maidenhood.
1920, Aldous Huxley, “Beauty”, in Leda, New York: George H. DoranSynonyms: Argonautic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf or pertaining to the Argonauts.
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