Augæan

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English

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Etymology

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Comparable to Europæan and Herculæan.

Adjective

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Augæan (comparative more Augæan, superlative most Augæan)

  1. Obsolete spelling of Augean.
    • 1879, Susan Warner, My Desire, page 429 (R. Carter and Brothers):
      Obedient to your well urged petition, I have gone into the Herculæan task of clearing — not the Augæan stables, but what is worse, — my baskets of papers.