herculian

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herculian

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Herculian
    • 1803, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly, Minutes - United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., page 44:
      The bodily exercise has assumed such a variety of shapes as to render it a truly herculian task to give an intelligent statement of it to any person who has never seen it.
    • 1979, G.S. Bhalla, Yoginder K Alagh, Performance of Indian Agriculture: A Districtwise Study, Sterling, page 2:
      The planners in India, therefore, face a herculian task as they have to take steps to raise the present agricultural growth rate by at least one and half times.
    • 2007, Ashutosh Kar, Pharmaceutical Microbiology, New Age International, →ISBN, page 4:
      Antony van Leeuwenhoek initiated the herculian task of 'microscope making' through his inherent hobby of 'lens making'.

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