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  • adjective Of or relating to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mount Parnassus, sacred to the Muses.

Etymologies

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Latin Castalius

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Examples

  • I called home and my Dad said 5 died in Castalian Springs, a community north of Nashville, outside of Gallatin, TN.

    Annoying Intro (copy) ____Maggie 2008

  • He raised steer and tobacco on acreage in Castalian Springs, Tennessee, west of Gallatin.

    Archive 2007-08-01 ____Maggie 2007

  • He raised steer and tobacco on acreage in Castalian Springs, Tennessee, west of Gallatin.

    Flower Confidential (copy) ____Maggie 2007

  • Byllye Booth, 83, of Castalian Springs has to take nine pills and six insulin shots each day to treat her diabetes and heart problems.

    Online Pillbox Reminds Patients to Take Meds | Impact Lab 2007

  • She succeeds Curt Andrews, who now is now chief executive of Castalian Music LLC, part of Genius Products Inc.Ms. Johnson, 50, was chief marketing and global branding officer of Brinker International Inc. CREDO PETROLEUM Corp.

    Noted ... 2008

  • Who has not heard of Mount Olympus — that high abode of all the powers of type, that favoured seat of the great goddess Pica, that wondrous habitation of gods and devils, from whence, with ceaseless hum of steam and never-ending flow of Castalian ink, issue forth fifty thousand nightly edicts for the governance of a subject nation?

    The Warden 2004

  • Castalian rill whose dark waters are tinged with the gall of poetic indignation; but as in other sense I may not hang him, I will tell how he was driven from his club, and how he ceased to number himself among the legislators of his country.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • Castalian Fountain; near Antiochia in Syria, between the

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Castalian Fountain; near Antiochia in Syria, between the

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Mount Parnassus, covered the greater part of the year with snow, with its sacred cave, and its Castalian fount gushing forth between two of its lofty rocks.

    Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

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