Adonean
English edit
Adjective edit
Adonean (comparative more Adonean, superlative most Adonean)
- Of or pertaining to Adonis.
- 1648, Robert Baron, Erotopaignion, Or The Cyprian Academy:
- My teares shall raine upon his grave to make the gentle earth beare some Adonean, or rather Antiomerean flowre, which shall beare his name and memory.
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References edit
- “Adonean”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.