DAEDAL • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Daedal

... of the missal more than its words;—but farther, and worse, the ingenuity of Daedalus may even become bestial, an instinct for mechanical labor only, strangely involved with a feverish and ghastly cruelty:—(you will find this distinct in the intensely Daedal work of the Japanese); rebellious, finally, against the laws of nature and honor, and building labyrinths ...

— Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture - Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 • John Ruskin