Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or of the nature of a cynosure; attracting attention, as a cynosure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a cynosure.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a cynosure.

Etymologies

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cynosure +‎ -al

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Examples

  • “Had either, madam, of that cynosural triad been within call of my most humble importunities, your ears had been delectate with far nobler melody.”

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Nor, most assuredly, do we ask you to preserve the statue in its cynosural position in this entrance-hall of our National Museum of Natural History as evidence that Mr. Darwin's views have received your official sanction; for science does not recognise such sanctions, and commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Nor, most assuredly, do we ask you to preserve the statue in its cynosural position in this entrance hall of our National Museum of

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • "Had either, madam, of that cynosural triad been within call of my most humble importunities, your ears had been delectate with far nobler melody."

    Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

  • It should be noted that assembly array jobs will pause, not cancel, if the starbase or capital ship assembly array goes offline now and any sovereignty dependant structures will similarly go offline like cynosural jammers and the like.

    MMOz 2009

  • Titans will no longer bump into cynosural generator arrays, when jumping to it.

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2009

  • You cannot activate a cynosural beacon in W-space nor can you activate your jump drive (on those ships equipped with one) to escape.

    MMOz 2009

  • * You cannot activate a cynosural beacon in W-space nor can you activate your jump drive (on those ships equipped with one) to escape.

    WarCry Network : Latest News 2009

  • * You cannot activate a cynosural beacon in W-space nor can you activate your jump drive (on those ships equipped with one) to escape.

    WarCry Network : Latest News 2009

  • • The capital ship assembly array, cynosural system jammer and system scanning array were incorrectly displaying a mass of 100 kg.

    Mac Game Files 2008

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