dædal

A form of daedal — Skilful, ingenious, cunning.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. archaicArchaic spelling of daedal.

    Here ancient Art her dædal fancies play’d In the quaint mazes of the criſped roof ; In mellow glooms the ſpeaking pane array’d, And rang’d the cluſter’d colum, maſſy proof.

    1777, Thomas Warton, “Ode III”, in The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Warton, and Poet Laureate, volume I, page 136
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