Medean
Medean is the alternative form of Median.
Meaning of Median
Adjective
Median (not comparable)
- Relating to Media or Medes.
- Lucullus seeing certaine Median men at armes, which were in the front of Tigranes Army, heavily and unweildily armed, as in an iron prison, apprehended thereby an opinion, that he might easily defeat them[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- Of laws, rules etc.: unchanging, invariable.
- ‘This proceeding,’ interposed the president, ‘is by no means in accordance with the terms of the mulct or sentence, which is in its nature Median, and not to be altered or recalled.’1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest
Adjective
Medean (comparative more Medean, superlative most Medean)
- Of, or pertaining to, Medea from Greek mythology.
- As Dido was (among other things) a tragic and a Medean character in those passages in Virgil, so now Medea can seem Didonian […]2005, Scott McGill, Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity, ch. 2, "Tragic Virgil: The Medea", page 50
Forms of Medean
| comparative | more Medean |
|---|---|
| superlative | most Medean |
Origin of Medean
From Mede + -an.
From Medea + -n.
Questions about Medean
- What does Medean mean?
- Medean means of, or pertaining to, Medea from Greek mythology.
- What is Medean the alternative form of?
- Medean is the alternative form of Median.
- What part of speech is Medean?
- Medean is an adjective.
Words near Medean in the dictionary
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