Solomonic

English Etymology From en Solomon ic. Adjective Relating to or resembling Solomon, a king of Israel noted for his wisdom; wise. en 2017 Velvel Pasternak Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections 72 I did not want her to think that it was a foolish question, so I pretended to think and in a moment of Solomonic wisdom I said, "You know many rabbis have been asked this question and although some said Macintosh while others said Delicious, most of them encouraged a combination of both." Resembling the Judgement of Solomon; involving the division of something between several groups with competing claims. en solonic en 2012-10-11 Anver M. Emon Mark Ellis Benjamin Glahn Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law OUP Oxford 9780191645693 367 It is woth having regard in this context to its Solomonic solution to the language problem. During the Apartheid era, there were two official languages, both those of the white minority—English and Afrikaans. There was no majority language in the population of some 43 million people. To follow other former British colonies in Africa and adopt English as the sole official language would have been unacceptable to the six million Afrikaans-speaking South Africans (three million white and three million 'coloreds'). English was the home language of only three million South Africans . To retain both white languages as the official languages of post-Apartheid would have been demeaning of the nine main indigenous languages. The solution was the recognition of eleven official languages: the two 'white languages' and nine indigenous languages. en 2018-03-02 Leonard V. Smith Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 Oxford University Press 9780191664854 241 ... proposed the Solomonic solution of dividing Upper Silesia, which even as a least bad solution would “remix" the very peoples the plebiscite had sought to “unmix." Given the divided vote between urban and rural areas, and even within urban areas, no border could be drawn without leaving large numbers of Germans in Poland, or large numbers of Poles in Germany. a Solomonic judgement Relating to the Solomon Islands. a Solomonic language en architecture Twisted helically. en barley-sugar a Solomonic column See also en split the baby en eponyms