Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Like a labyrinth.
- Specifically, in zoology, same as labyrinthodont.
Wiktionary
- adj. labyrinthine
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
Examples
“It's also essential for small business who, very often, doesn't have the legal capacity, the money to spend with consultants to go through this labyrinthic procedures.”
“All our contact person in Umeå must do is to follow a labyrinthic path through downtown”
“At the moment, "string theory" is no theory at all, but rather a labyrinthic structure of mathematical procedures and intuitions which get their justification from the fact that they, at least formally, reproduce general relativity and the standard model of elementary particle physics as low energy approximations.”
“Eight Towers: a labyrinthic mass, high-frowning there, of all ages, from twenty years to four hundred and twenty; beleaguered, in this its last hour, as we said, by mere chaos come again!”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
“His very language is Titanian; deep, strong, tumultuous; shining with a thousand hues, fused from a thousand elements, and winding in labyrinthic masses. ”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
“After reaching the bay they had left the day before they turned to the east and north as they followed labyrinthic channels that led around big and little keys in that part of the ten times Ten Thousand”
“And so this wonderful wonder of wonders was glad when he emerged from the labyrinthic, brain-confusing bewilderment of Chinese interior life of this town into somewhat clearer regions.”
“Careful as he had been, this wily devil had led him into a labyrinthic maze of questions, the end of which was a concealed precipice.”
“The branch to the greater superficial petrosal passes through an opening on the labyrinthic wall, in front of the fenestra vestibuli.”
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 3. The Auditory Ossicles
“The tympanic branch of the glossopharyngeal (Jacobsons nerve) enters the tympanic cavity by an aperture in its floor close to the labyrinthic wall, and divides into branches which ramify on the promontory and enter into the formation of the tympanic plexus.”
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 3. The Auditory Ossicles
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Adjectival Arcana
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