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comparative more daedal, superlative most daedal
Skilful, ingenious, cunning. quotations examples
His daedale hand would faile, and greatly faint, / And her perfections with his error taint […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
The daedal hand of Nature.
J. Philips
Barquentine went into a form of a trance, the well-heads of his eyes appearing to cloud over and become opaque like miniature sargassos, of dull chalky-blue – the cataract veil – for it seemed that he was trying to remember the daedal days of his adolescence.
1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode