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Definition of Rhadamanthine
1. a. Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.
Definition of Rhadamanthine
1. Adjective. Strictly and uncompromisingly just. ¹
2. Adjective. Inflexibly rigorous or severe. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rhadamanthine
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhadamanthine
Literary usage of Rhadamanthine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twice Around the Clock, Or, The Hours of the Day and Night in London by George Augustus Sala, William McConnell (1862)
"For the rhadamanthine man in the great-coat has betimes to listen to tales of
awful murder, of desperate burglaries, of harrowing suicides, of poverty and ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"Date and document exist for all these cases, though my Dryasdust gives none; and
the cases are indubitable; very rhadamanthine indeed. ..."
3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"Date and document exist for all these cases, though my Dryasdust gives none; and
the cases are indubitable; very rhadamanthine indeed. ..."
4. The Dawn of European Civilization by Griffith Hartwell Jones (1903)
"of this rhadamanthine justice1 in the ... all 1 The expression " rhadamanthine
rule " in the passage was taken from the name of Rhadamanthus, ..."
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