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dædal

dædal is the archaic spelling of daedal.

Meaning of daedal

Adjective

daedal (comparative more daedal, superlative most daedal)

  1. Skilful, ingenious, cunning.
    • 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, →OCLC

Questions about dædal

What is dædal the archaic spelling of?
Dædal is the archaic spelling of daedal.

Words near dædal in the dictionary

  1. Dângeni
  2. Dârlos
  3. Dârmănești
  4. Däniken
  5. Därligen
  6. dædal
  7. dæmon
  8. dæmoniac
  9. dæmoniacal
  10. dæmonic
  11. dæmonical

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