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Webster 1913 Edition


Laodicean

La-odˊi-ce′an

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Adj.
Of or pertaining to
Laodicea
, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion.
Rev. iii. 14-16.

Webster 1828 Edition


Laodicean

LAODICE'AN

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Adj.
Like the christians of Laodicea: lukewarm in religion.

Definition 2024


Laodicean

Laodicean

English

Adjective

Laodicean (comparative more Laodicean, superlative most Laodicean)

  1. pertaining to Laodicea
  2. lukewarm, neither hot nor cold (with reference to Revelation 3:16)
    • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
      The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in the shower you had so carefully blended.

Noun

Laodicean (plural Laodiceans)

  1. Somebody from Laodicea