hundred-handed

1. not comparableHaving 100 hands.

   Of course, it's impossible to follow up on every single big of misbehaviour and less-than-perfect conduct that you will come – you're not some hundred-handed Eastern deity – but you must be seen to be doing what you can.

   2010, Tom Bennett, The Behaviour Guru: Behaviour Management Solutions for Teachers, →ISBN, page 90

2. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Hundred-handed.

   In Classical legend Cottys was the hundred-handed brother of the hundred-handed monsters Briareus and Gyes, allies of the God Zeus in his war against the Titans on the borders of Thrace and Thessaly.

   2011, Robert Graves, The White Goddess, →ISBN, page 75

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1. not comparableOf the Hekatonkheires, three giants of Greek mythology who helped Zeus overthrow the Titans.

   Uranos imprisoned the Titans in the earth, and threw the Cyclops and Hundred-handed Giants into Tartarus, but was at length overthrown and disabled by his son Cronos the Titan, who thereupon released his brother Titans and established the second dynasty of gods called the Cronids.

   1855, James Talboys Wheeler, The Life and Travels of Herodotus - Volume 2, page 99

1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Hundred-handed.

   You guys go free the Cyclopes and Hundred-Handed ones," said Zeus.

   2015, Sen Sen L. Lin Quan, Tales of Ancient Greece: A Guide to Greek Mythology, page 32