Promethean

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or pertaining to Prometheus, a demigod in Greek mythology who created mortals from clay and stole fire from Zeus to give to them, for which Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock and having an eagle feed on his liver which grew back each night; he was later rescued by Heracles.

   “And, like Promethian life-begetting flame, / Pure bodies in the element should frame; / As to what part of heauen they hapt to stray, / There should they make another milkie way.”

2. sıfat Boldly creative, inventive, or original; skilful, talented; also, recklessly daring; audacious.

   “Therefore Promethean poets with the coals / Of their most genial, more-than-human souls / In living verse, created men like these, / With shapes of Centaurs, Harpies, Lapithes, […]”

3. sıfat Of a Romantic literary hero: defying traditional moral categories; rebelling against a larger order; persecuted but dauntless.
4. sıfat Of or pertaining to the promethea silkmoth (Callosamia promethea).
5. isim One with the qualities of Prometheus, or who acts in a Promethean manner (audaciously, creatively, etc.).

   “The Fall is a view of life. It is not only the only enlightening, but the only encouraging view of life. It holds, as against the only real alternative philosophies, those of the Buddhist or the Pessimist or the Promethean.”

6. isim A kind of lucifer match consisting of a glass tube containing sulfuric acid coated on the outside with a flammable mixture of potassium chlorate and sugar and wrapped in paper rolls; the match was lit by crushing the tube with pliers, causing the acid to react with and ignite the flammable components. This type of match was superseded by the friction match which was lit by rubbing against a rough surface.

   “I carried with me some promethean matches, which I ignited by biting; it was thought so wonderful that a man should strike fire with his teeth, that it was usual to collect the whole family to see it: I was once offered a dollar for a single one.”