a. Also 7 -æan, 7, 9 -ean. [f. LABYRINTH sb. + -IAN.] = LABYRINTHINE, in various senses.
1588. J. Harvey, Discoursive Probleme, 42. This intricate Labyrynthian monument.
1597–8. Bp. Hall, Sat. (1753), 48. His linnen collar labyrinthian set.
1609. Heywood, Brit. Troy, XIII. 332. To guide me through the laborinthean maze In which my brain’s intangled.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, V. vi. § 7. 647. The Labirynthian head of Martius could not allow of such plaine reason.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 15. The Labyrinthæan Mazes and web of the small arteries.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 1029. The labyrinthian turns they take The circles intricate, and mystic maze.
1837. Fraser’s Mag., XVI. 71. The labyrinthean mazes of a female heart.
1854. Bakewell, Geol., 43. This peculiar labyrinthian structure of the teeth.
1864. Hawthorne, Grimshawe, xxi. (1891), 286. It is a labyrinthian house for its size.
1900. H. W. Smyth, Greek Melic Poets, p. xcii. Clews to guide us through the labyrinthian mazes of the theme.
