Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of or resembling a spider's web in texture.

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  • Not to explain and justify the existing world by the arachnean method of spinning a _Weltanschauung_ out of one's own interior, but to make the world different, -- was the new watchword.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

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