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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Cynthia.

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Examples

  • [ "He plays on his learned lute a verse such as Cynthian Apollo modulates with his imposed fingers."

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • [ "He plays on his learned lute a verse such as Cynthian Apollo modulates with his imposed fingers."

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 13 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • Cynthian hill hard by a palm-tree by the streams of Inopus.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Also, they were entering habitation, and soon a Cynthian was bound to notice him aloft.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • Her captain had said she was made of Terran and Cynthian woods, which Daedalan organisms did not attack, and driven by an electric engine.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • Entering, Targovi found a Cynthian who sported a lieutenant's comets on a collar that was her principal outfit, chatting with a couple of elderly enlisted ratings.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • The owner bounded to greet him: a Cynthian by species, small, white-furred, bushy-tailed.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • Being a mostly Cynthian town, Lulach looked smaller than it was.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • A Cynthian lookout perched atop the bridge, within which the pilot was occupied.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • But he is widely traveled and he has thought deeply about the things he has witnessed-from his nonhuman, non-Cynthian, non-Merseian perspective.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

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