DAEDALIAN • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Daedalian

... of all those arts which are combined in the making of lovelier idols than had heretofore been seen. The old Greek word which is at the root of the name Daedalus, the name of a craft rather than a proper name, probably means to work curiously—all curiously beautiful wood-work is Daedal work; the main point about the curiously beautiful [238] chamber in which Nausicaa sleeps, in the Odyssey, being that, like some exquisite Swiss chlet, it is wrought in wood. But it came about that those workers in wood, whom Daedalus represents, ...

— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater