ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Centauresque

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Centauresque is an adjective meaning Having attributes like those of the mythical centaur.

Meaning

Having attributes like those of the mythical centaur.

More Meanings

  1. By extension, having the characteristics of two things combined together; hybridized; chimeric.

Example Sentences

Message and method merge, centauresque, to assist him.
More distrustful and irritable than ever, in this section, this watchdog character was to be obsessed with the centauresque likeness of my four boys.
Here they take on their true centauresque form, each one mounting a hired courser and clattering through the town in the direction of the Wood of Verrières.
We are of opinion in any way, that the grace is more obvious than the strength ; and there may be something centauresque and of twofold nature in their rushing mutabilities, and changes on passion and weakness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include centaurian, centipedal, elephantesque, hetaeric, semimythological, caducean.

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