| Adamant (adamant) |
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| n. | ( d"å*mnt) |
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| Ad"a*mant |
| [OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant,
L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr.
'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. +
dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from con |
A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given
to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern
mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or
poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
Lodestone; magnet.
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