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ADAMANT (from Gr. aba,uas, untameable)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 174 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ADAMANT (from Gr. aba,uas, untameable) , the
modern
  diamond (q.v.), but also a name given to any very hard substance. The
Greek
  word is used by
Homer
  as a
personal
  epithet, and by
Hesiod
  for the hard metal in
armour
 , while
Theophrastus
  applies it to the hardest crystal. By an etymological confusion with the Lat. adamare, to have an attraction for, it also came to be associated with the loadstone; but since the
term
  was displaced by " diamond " it has had only a figurative and poetical use.


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