1. promethean - Noun
2. promethean - Adjective
Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus.
Having a life-giving quality; inspiring.
An apparatus for automatic ignition.
A kind of lucifer match.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAll the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms. Camille Paglia
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive They sparkle still the right Promethean fire They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. William Shakespeare
Ah! what fury! alas! mankind, alas! dread Promethean skill! Statius
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity. John Boyle O'Reilly
A garden was the primitive prison, till man, with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. Charles Lamb
Brown's body, which was placed in a Promethean casket–which is bronze polished to a golden shine–was driven through the streets of New York to the Apollo Theater in a white, glass-encased horse-drawn carriage. Source: Internet