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Etymology edit

From the German [Term?] after the Cyclopes (from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps, cyclops), the mythical primitive race.

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Cyclopean (comparative more Cyclopean, superlative most Cyclopean)

  1. 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, []
  2. (architecture) Of a style of ancient masonry where walls are fitted together of huge irregular stones; ancient and roughly composed.

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Cyclopean architecture

References edit

  • Sturgis, Russel. Cyclopean, in A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical,... MacMillan Co.:1901.[1]

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