Associations to the word «Rhadamanthus»

Wiktionary

RHADAMANTHUS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Hyacinthaceae   — renamed as Drimia.
RHADAMANTHUS, noun. (Greek mythology) One of the three judges of the infernal regions.
RHADAMANTHUS, noun. (figuratively) A strict and just judge.

Dictionary definition

RHADAMANTHUS, noun. (Greek mythology) a judge of the dead in the underworld.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats