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Acherontic¹
adjective acherontic · acherontical
- Of, pertaining to or resembling Acheron (one of the rivers located in the underworld according to ancient Greek mythology). It was a Comedy, to see what a crowding (as if it had bene at a newe Play,) there was vpon the Acheronticque Strond,
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Of or pertaining to hell.
1623, George Langford, Search the Scriptures, London: John Clarke, Section 7, p. 43,
How did those Aegyptians storme, when Moses and Aaron, Crumwell and Cranmer came, to deliuer Gods Israel, from that Acheronticall ignorance?
Similar: hellish, infernal, Plutonian, Tartarean, Acherontic, Hadean, helly, Plutonic, stygian, subtartarean
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Lacking joy and comfort; nearing death.
1599, John Weever, Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut, and Newest Fashion, London: Thomas Bushell, The Thirde Weeke, Epig. 7,
Depart to blacke nights Acheronticke Cell,
Similar: bleak, cheerless, dismal, gloomy, lugubrious, moribund
acherontic²
adjective
- Alternative form of Acherontic
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adj pertaining to or resembling Acheron
| Português | aquerôntico |
|---|---|
| Français | achérontique |
| Deutsch | acherontisch |
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