English
Etymology
From Latin Laodicea, from Greek �αοδικεια, a city in Asia Minor.
Pronunciation
IPA: /leɪ�dɪ'si:�n/
Adjective
Laodicean
- pertaining to w:Laodicea on the Lycus|Laodicea
- lukewarm, neither hot nor cold (with reference to Revelation 3:16)
#:*1955: The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in the shower you had so carefully blended. � Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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