Monday word: daedal

[ersatz-read.livejournal.com]

daedal (dēd′l), adj.
1.  Complex or igenious in design or function; intricate.
2.  Skillfully made; artistic.

Etymology:  Greek daidolos, skillful, cunningly wrought.  The name Daedalus, from Greek mythology, shares the same meaning.

I sang of the dancing stars,

        I sang of the daedal Earth,

And of Heaven, and the giant wars,

        And Love, and Death, and Birth—

               And then I chang'd my pipings,

- Percy Bysshe Shelley, from "Hymn of Pan"

Comments

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Good to know. I'm reading the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at the moment, incidentally.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

I suppose I ought to remember that Shelley used the word, no doubt multiple times. I associate daedal with Yeats, mostly.

---L.