Gardian vs Gordian - What's the difference?
gardian | gordian |
Of or pertaining to Gordium (now in Turkey), capital of Phrygia.
Of or pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia
Of the Gordian knot.
Twisted; convoluted; tied as a knot.
Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake.
She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,
Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue. * 2005 — Lance Parkin, The Gallifrey Chronicles , p 205 *: When you put it that way it was so simple, so self-explanatory, so beautiful, so obvious that what had seemed the most Gordian problem was instantly almost mundane, and its elegance was its own proof.
As a noun gardian
is .As an adjective gordian is
.gordian
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{{timeline, 1600s=1667, 1800s=1819, 2000s=2005}} * 1667 — , Book IV *: close the serpent sly, / Insinuating, wove with Gordian twine / His braided train * 1819 — *: Until he found a palpitating snake,Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake.
She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,
Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue. * 2005 — Lance Parkin, The Gallifrey Chronicles , p 205 *: When you put it that way it was so simple, so self-explanatory, so beautiful, so obvious that what had seemed the most Gordian problem was instantly almost mundane, and its elegance was its own proof.