adamant

Adamant Ad"a*mant ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. ada`mas, -antos; a priv. + dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet, as in OF. and LL. See Diamond, Tame.] 1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. [1913 Webster]

Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] ``A great adamant of acquaintance. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene. [1913 Webster]

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Adamant
the translation of the Hebrew word Shamir in (ezekiel 3:9) andZech 7:12 In (jeremiah 17:1) it is translated "diamond." Inthese three passages the word is the representative of somestone of excessive hardness, and is used metaphorically. It isvery probable that by Shamir is intended emery, a variety ofcorundum, a mineral inferior, only to the diamond in hardness.

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