rhadamanthine

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San Francisco State College President S. I. Hayakawa, a hero to California conservatives for his rhadamanthine handling of student demonstrators in the past, serenely denied that M-day was being observed on his campus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even before these rhadamanthine judgments were pronounced, Carol's out-of-town notices had set the box office of Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater humming with the biggest advance seat sale in theatrical history�a whacking $600,000 worth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of which no constitutional country can hope to see the fellow, were the need never so pressing.—I wish his Majesty had been a thought more equal, when he was so rhadamanthine!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Carlyle, Thomas

On the morrow morning, Colonel Pannewitz, hoping now he was not there, went with the rhadamanthine order; and finding the unlucky fellow, was obliged to execute it.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Carlyle, Thomas

Imprimatur nevertheless was the concluding word,—with these grave abatements, and rhadamanthine admonitions.

From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas