Minerva, the Roman virgin goddess of wisdom and the arts, identified with the Greek Athena (q.v.); born full-armed from the brain of Jupiter, and representing his thinking, calculating, inventive power, and third in rank to him.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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