daedal

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noun (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus
adjective complex and ingenious in design or function

From Latin daedalus, from Ancient Greek δαίδαλος (daídalos, “skillful”).

And so on, taking the girls' thoughts with him, until the life they led, life in the vast and intricate London of the twenty-second century, a life interspersed with soaring excursions to every part of the globe, seemed to them a monotonous misery compared with the daedal past. — Tales of Space and Time, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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