Cyclopean
See also: cyclopean
English edit
Etymology edit
From the German [Term?] after the Cyclopes (from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps, “cyclops”), the mythical primitive race.
Adjective edit
Cyclopean (comparative more Cyclopean, superlative most Cyclopean)
- Suggestive of a Cyclops or relating to the Cyclopes.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
- Our quiuering Lances ſhaking in the aire,
And bullets like Ioues dreadfull Thunderbolts,
Enrolde in flames and fiery ſmoldering miſtes,
Shall threat the Gods more than Cyclopian warres, […]
- (architecture) Of a style of ancient masonry where walls are fitted together of huge irregular stones; ancient and roughly composed.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Cyclopean.
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References edit
- Sturgis, Russel. Cyclopean, in A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical,... MacMillan Co.:1901.[1]