Tartarean
[tɑ:'tєәriәn]
Definition
(a.) Alt. of Tartareous
Checker: Max
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Infernal, hellish, tartareous.
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Examples
- The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish. Plato. The Republic.
- A true Tartarean dignity sat upon her brow, and not factitiously or with marks of constraint, for it had grown in her with years. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Their Tartarean situation might by some have been called an imprudent one for two unattended women. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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