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  • adjective Of or relating to Artemis

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Examples

  • I'll bet she's an Artemisian using Cupid as camouflage.

    A Prayer to the Porcelain God Hugh Barlow 2011

  • Following the inevitable violence and destruction, Artemisian ambition focuses elsewhere and a journey begins towards the frozen kingdoms of the north ...and towards the truth about the legendary "Book of Robots", a text which may finally explain the real history of this strange world ...

    Archive 2009-04-01 Benjamin 2009

  • Elsewhere, the more individualistic robots of Turing City believe they are something more than metal, but when the Artemisian robot Kavan sets out on a determined crusade to prove himself, even Turing City can't stand against him.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Benjamin 2009

  • Following the inevitable violence and destruction, Artemisian ambition focuses elsewhere and a journey begins towards the frozen kingdoms of the north ...and towards the truth about the legendary "Book of Robots", a text which may finally explain the real history of this strange world ...

    New releases for the week of April 28th Benjamin 2009

  • Elsewhere, the more individualistic robots of Turing City believe they are something more than metal, but when the Artemisian robot Kavan sets out on a determined crusade to prove himself, even Turing City can't stand against him.

    New releases for the week of April 28th Benjamin 2009

  • "It is because I do understand, my dear," said I, enjoying the flashing beauty of her return to Artemisian attitudes, "that I particularly characterised the dear lady as a disappointment."

    The Red Planet William John Locke 1896

  • Perhaps we have no right to complain of the obliteration of these memorials of antiquity by the plough; the living are more than the dead, and in this case it may be said that we are only following the Artemisian example in consuming (in our daily bread) minute portions of the ashes of our old relations, albeit untearfully, with a cheerful countenance.

    A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881

  • On the whole, I should advise A.W. to put on "a clean biled rag," which is Artemisian for a clean shirt, and cross the

    Echoes of the Week 1865

  • Artemisian Channel, before the battle of Thermopylæ, and had passed around to Salamis, the commanders in the city of Athens had given up the hope of making any effectual defense, and had given orders that the inhabitants should save themselves by seeking a refuge wherever they could find it.

    Xerxes Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

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