Gordian
See also: gordian
English
Etymology
From Gordius + -an or Gordium + -an.
Adjective
Gordian (comparative more Gordian, superlative most Gordian)
- Of or pertaining to Gordium (now Yassihüyük in Turkey), capital of Phrygia.
- Of or pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia
- Of the Gordian knot.
- Twisted; convoluted; tied as a knot.
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- 1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 6:
- […] he found a palpitating snake, / Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake. / She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, / Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; […]
- 2005, Lance Parkin, The Gallifrey Chronicles, page 205:
- When you put it that way it was so simple, so self-explanatory, so beautiful, so obvious that what had seemed the most Gordian problem was instantly almost mundane, and its elegance was its own proof.
Proper noun
Gordian
Translations
name of Roman emperors
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