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Definition of Lethean
1. a. Of or pertaining to Lethe; resembling in effect the water of Lethe.
Definition of Lethean
1. Adjective. (mostly poetic Greek mythology) Of or relating to the river Lethe, one of the four rivers of Hades. Those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. ¹
2. Adjective. (by extension) Of or relating to death or forgetfulness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lethean
1. lethe [adj] - See also: lethe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lethean
Literary usage of Lethean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"О Melancholy, linger her« awhile ! О Music, Music, breathe despondingly! О Echo,
Echo, from some sombre isle, Unknown, lethean, sigh to us—О sigh ..."
2. Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter (1873)
"... sweeping headlong upward through the air; but the other is a long and peaceful
sigh, a dreamy, lulling, beautiful sound, which produces a lethean ..."
3. The Mercersburg Review by Alumni Association, Pa.) Marshall College (Mercersburg (1851)
"Nor hit bonds lethean to break was Theseus able For his dear Pirithous.
Virtuous Hippolytus : Sweet moralist, thou certainly knewest best what was most ..."
4. Selections from the Works of the Late Sylvester Genin, Esq.: ... in Poetry by Sylvester Genin (1855)
"... lethean, there to be reborn. MERCY. SPRUNG from greatness, glorious born.
Rose of beauty on life's thorn, Meek-eyed Mercy ! thou above Passion's storm, ..."
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