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Webster 1913 Edition
Laodicean
La-odˊi-ce′an
,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
,Adj.
Definition 2024
Laodicean
Laodicean
English
Adjective
Laodicean (comparative more Laodicean, superlative most Laodicean)
- pertaining to Laodicea
- 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.
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Noun
Laodicean (plural Laodiceans)
- Somebody from Laodicea