Icarian
Definition of icarian:
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part of speech: adjective
Belonging to Icarus: adventurous or unfortunate in flight.
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part of speech: adjective
Adventurous; soaring too high for safety.
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Usage examples for Icarian:
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It may not be altogether useless, at a time when declamations, springing from St. Simonian, Phalansterian, and Icarian books, are invoking the press and the tribune, and which seriously threaten the liberty of labour and commercial transactions.
"Essays on Political Economy" – Frederic Bastiat -
On the ninth day of our march from the shores of the Tanganika we again perceived our " Magdala Mount," rising like a dark cloud to the north- east, by which I knew that we were approaching Imrera, and that our Icarian attempt to cross the uninhabited jungle of Ukawendi would soon be crowned with success.
"How I Found Livingstone" – Sir Henry M. Stanley -
And the sea in which poor Icarus was drowned was called forever afterward by his name, the Icarian Sea.
"Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year" – E.C. Hartwell -
We will now ascend in fancy on Icarian wing, and take a view of Guiana in general.
"Wanderings in South America" – Charles Waterton