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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the mythical winged horse Pegasus.
  • adjective figuratively Of or pertaining to to poetry.

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Examples

  • It transcends the power of human intellect, however deeply it may have drunk of the Pegasean fount, to develop fully the title of the present chapter.

    The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

  • Though you heave into the air upon the gilded Pegasean back,

    Poems 1918-21 1921

  • Pegasean fount, but the other would drain a draught of Arethusa.

    Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

  • Not were I framed the Cretan guard, nor did I move with Pegasean wing, nor were I

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • IT transcends the power of human intellect, however deeply it may have drunk of the Pegasean fount, to develop fully the title of the present chapter.

    The Love of Books: the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 1345

  • It transcends the power of human intellect, however deeply it may have drunk of the Pegasean fount, to develop fully the title of the present chapter.

    The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury Richard de Bury 1316

  • Lo, rumor, flying on Pegasean wings, filled the castles and cities with the news that even geese had been sent by God to liberate Jerusalem.

    The Deeds of God Through the Franks Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert 1088

  • Lo, rumor, flying on Pegasean wings, filled the castles and cities with the news that even geese had been sent by God to liberate Jerusalem.

    The Deeds of God Through the Franks Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert 1088

  • One day I had been pacing to and fro the hall, which was deserted; and the sight of the armor and portraits -- dumb evidences of the active and adventurous lives of the old inhabitants, which seemed to reprove my own inactive obscurity -- had set me off on one of those Pegasean hobbies on which youth mounts to the skies, -- delivering maidens on rocks, and killing Gorgons and monsters, -- when Juba bounded in, and Blanche came after him, her straw hat in her hand.

    The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • One day I had been pacing to and fro the hall, which was deserted; and the sight of the armor and portraits -- dumb evidences of the active and adventurous lives of the old inhabitants, which seemed to reprove my own inactive obscurity -- had set me off on one of those Pegasean hobbies on which youth mounts to the skies, -- delivering maidens on rocks, and killing Gorgons and monsters, -- when Juba bounded in, and Blanche came after him, her straw hat in her hand.

    The Caxtons — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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