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Cyclopean   /sˌaɪkləpˈiən/   Listen
Cyclopean

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops.



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"Cyclopean" Quotes from Famous Books



... and in the more broken recesses, seems near akin to that which it is the tendency of some magnificent ruin to excite, than that which awakens amid the sublime of nature. We feel as if the pillared rocks around us were like the Cyclopean walls of Southern Italy,—the erections of some old gigantic race passed from the earth forever. The feeling must have been experienced on former occasions, amid the innumerable pillars of the Scuir; for we find M'Culloch, in his description, ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller
... of the Peruvian empire is very clearly conceived and stated by Garcilasso. Without making due allowance for that mysterious earlier civilisation, older than the Incas, whose cyclopean buildings are the wonder of travellers, Garcilasso attributes the introduction of civilisation to his own ancestors. Allowing for what is confessedly mythical in his narrative, it must be admitted ...
— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang


Words linked to "Cyclopean" :   cyclops, cyclopean masonry


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