Adagial

Definitions

  • Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
    • a Adagial Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. "Adagial verse."
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
    • adagial Of the nature of or containing an adage: as, “that adagial verse,”
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Usage

In literature:

They are call'd Adagies or Maxims.
"Proverb Lore" by F. Edward Hulme
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