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dedal

dedal 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 dedal

What is dedal the archaic spelling of?
Dedal is the archaic spelling of daedal.

Words near dedal in the dictionary

  1. decysted
  2. ded
  3. Ded Moroz
  4. ded reckoning
  5. ded reckonings
  6. dedal
  7. Dedalian
  8. dedalous
  9. Dedan
  10. Dedanim
  11. Dedanite

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