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Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished;

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Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus slew each other.

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• PRINCELESS
  Without a prince. Fuller.
• INTRODUCTOR
  An introducer.
• VICTORY
  The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of Ant: defeat. Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Cor. xv. 54. God on our side,
• PRINCEDOM
  The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince. Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce. Milton.
• ALPHABET
  1. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language. 2. The simplest rudiments; elements. The very alphabet of our law. Macaulay. Deaf and dumb alphabet.
• ALPHABETISM
  The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet. Encyc. Brit.
• PRINCELY
  1. Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc. 2. Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.
• PRINCEHOOD
  Princeliness. E. Hall.
• INTRODUCEMENT
  Introduction.
• SIMPLE
  simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a., 1. Single; not complex; not infolded
• PRINCESSE
  A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.
• ALPHABETICALLY
  In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.
• INTRODUCTRESS
  A female introducer.
• SIMPLE-MINDED
  Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.
• PRINCE
  1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. Wyclif . Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. Milton. Queen Elizabeth,
• SIXTEENMO
  See SEXTODECIMO
• PRINCELET
  A petty prince.
• SIMPLETON
  A person of weak intellect; a silly person.
• INTRODUCTORY
  Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
• VANQUISH
  pret. vainquis, OF. veintre, pret. venqui, venquis (cf. an OF. infin. vainquir), fr. L. vincere; akin to AS. wig war, battle, wigant a warrior, wigan to fight, Icel. vig battle, Goth. weihan to fight, 1. To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle,
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.