Minerva

Definitions

1. The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, and the arts, especially crafts and in particular weaving. She is the Roman counterpart of Athena.
   Roman
2. A surname from Italian.
3. 93 Minerva, a main belt asteroid.
4. Wisdom.
   poetic

Equivalents

Examples

“In many works of this ſpecies, the hero is allowed to be mortal, and to become⟳ wiſe and virtuous as well as happy, by a train⟳ of events and circumſtances. The heroines, on the contrary, are to be born immaculate; and to act like⟳ goddeſſes of wiſdom, juſt come⟳ forth highly finiſhed Minervas from the head of Jove.”

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