rhadamanthine

They generally don’t look up long, hard-to-spell words—no “rhadamanthine” or “vecturist” unless the Scripps National Spelling Bee is on TV.

But Jacob, who made it through “rhadamanthine” and “carcharodont,” fell to “kabarogoya.”

As it was, she had signed away her life—a less important thing than property—and our Rhadamanthine law sternly held her to her bargain.

While the girl was speaking her appearance seemed to gradually change, till, when she stopped, she seemed to stand before the old man like some rhadamanthine, accusatory spirit, ready to pronounce judgment and to execute the judgment which she herself pronounced.

It seems to me," observed Mr Nunn, with an air of what he perhaps meant to be rhadamanthine severity, "that if there's anything in what that chap says somebody ought to have had their suspicions before now.