multicursal
English
editEtymology
editFrom multi- + -cursal, on the pattern of unicursal, bicursal and tricursal.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editmulticursal (comparative more multicursal, superlative most multicursal)
- (sometimes figurative) Of a maze or labyrinth: having more than one possible route between the centre and the outside.
- 1922, W. H. Matthews, Mazes & Labyrinths, page xii. 185:
- The Hampton Court maze..may serve as the type of a compact and the Versailles example..that of a diffuse multicursal labyrinth.
- 1988, W. B. Faris, The Labyrinths of Lang, page iv. 86:
- The reader's progress through these labyrinths of language thus forms a multicursal pattern.