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Webster 1913 Edition
Herculean
1.
Requiring the strength of Hercules; hence, very great, difficult, or dangerous;
as, an
. Herculean
task2.
Having extraordinary strength or size;
“Herculean Samson.” as,
. Herculean
limbsMilton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Herculean
HERCU'LEAN
,Adj.
1.
Having extraordinary strength and size; as Herculean limbs.2.
Of extraordinary strength, force or power.Definition 2024
Herculean
Herculean
See also: herculean
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
Herculean (comparative more Herculean, superlative most Herculean)
- Of extraordinary might, power, size, etc.; of or relating to Hercules in size or strength.
- 1607, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, i 3:
- But this is not the best:--look, pr'ythee, Charmian, / How this Herculean Roman does become / The carriage of his chafe.
- (Can we date this quote?) Bertram Fields:
- It was truly a Herculean effort. I never thought it was going to happen, but it did.
- 1607, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, i 3:
- Requiring a huge amount of work; of extraordinary difficulty.
- a Herculean labour, a Herculean task
- 1748, Tobias George Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random
- He replied in a dry manner, that I would find it a Herculean task to chastise everybody who should laugh at my expense;
- 2006: Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear, commenting on the Bugatti Veyron
- The guys at Volkswagen have a Herculean task.
Translations
of extraordinary might, power, size, etc.
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herculean
herculean
See also: Herculean
English
Adjective
herculean
- Alternative letter-case form of Herculean
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Still there are some loop-holes out of which a man may creep, and dare to think and act for himself; but for a woman it is an herculean task, because she has difficulties peculiar to her sex to overcome, which require almost super-human powers.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman