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Definition of Acherontic
1. Adjective. Dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades. "Upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"
Definition of Acherontic
1. a. Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
Definition of Acherontic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acherontic
Literary usage of Acherontic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... bluish-gray rocks bear all the evidences of their fierce origin, and the spent
force of immemorial ages. Up this way there are acherontic pools whose ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... at length they lay him horizontally across two ropes ; — take to swinging him
hither and thither, up and down, across the black acherontic Ditch, ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"... up and down, across the black acherontic Ditch, which is frozen over, it being
the dead of winter : one of the ropes, lower rope, breaks; Gundling comes ..."
4. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... up and down, across the black acherontic ditch, which is frozen over, it being
the dead of winter: one of the ropes, lower rope, breaks; Gundling comes ..."
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