Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of or containing an adage: as, “that adagial verse,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.
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- adjective Pertaining to an
adage ;proverbial .
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Examples
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His style is often adagial or exaggerated, and we are constantly meeting such sentences as;
History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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