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Definition of Acheronian
1. Adjective. Dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades. "Upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"
Definition of Acheronian
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Acheron. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acheronian
Literary usage of Acheronian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sibylline Oracles: Translated from the Greek Into English Blank Verse by Milton Spenser Terry (1890)
"acheronian.—Acheron was a river of the lower world. Virg., j&n., vi, 295. Line 364.
Titans.—Mythical sons of heaven and earth who figure much in Greek ..."
2. The Greek readerby Friedrich Jacobs by Friedrich Jacobs (1827)
"'Л%«(м(, »v. Acharna?. BAP c.<cc, », ;v. Of the Ac.hfi.iU.. . 'A^«{ou»-/oc, £*, «F.
belonging to Acheron, acheronian ; hi/j.tn. the ..."
3. Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic by Ephraim George Squier (1852)
"... was higher than at any other point, and the brain almost reeled in looking
over its ragged edge, down upon the acheronian gulf below. ..."
4. Euripides by Euripides, Aristophanes (1906)
"... rocks of Styx And acheronian crags a-drip with blood Surround thee, and Cocytus'
circling hounds, And the hundred-headed serpent, that shall rend Thy ..."
5. Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic by Ephraim George Squier (1852)
"... was higher than at any other point, and the brain almost reeled in looking
over its ragged edge, down upon the acheronian gulf below. ..."
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