Elagabalian

English Etymology From en Elagabalus -ian. Adjective ? Of or relating to the Roman emperor Elagabalus (reigned 218–222). en 1899 The Yale Literary Magazine 45 https://books.google.com/books?id=YxJMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA45 Gabriele d’Annunzio . . . . the man’s very name has about it something peculiarly suggestive and subtile. And the mind depicted in this “Poema Paradisiaco” is one of those morbid minds, corrupt with all manner of exquisite corruption that flourished in Elagabalian Rome; an intellect bent on all manner of strange emotion . . . on sensations so subtile, so elusive, so poisonously lovely that they can only effect a being in decadence. en 1950 The Classical Journal 87 https://books.google.com/books?id=bHMEHZIz760C A word of caution seems needed: close watch should be kept for the appearance of modern caprices of the Elagabalian type, for that imbecilic emperor was uncomfortably close to le déluge! en 1974 The Fabulous Ego: Absolute Power in History 41 https://books.google.fr/books?id=wiuMSiPxUR0C But Jonson wrote The Alchemist at the peak of his talent and of the High Renaissance, when the universe was almost equal to man’s vast appetite, and expanding with it; from which point the true Elagabalian spirit was to decline during the following centuries into the sort of chic diabolism cultivated by J. K. Huysmans and other writers and painters of the fin de siècle. en 1982 Schweizer Münzblätter 5 https://books.google.com/books?id=DVNmAAAAMAAJ But as the quantity of these coins of Severus Alexander preserved, compared with Elagabal is rather small, we believe that, for reasons of public interest, the authorities of the city of Neapolis were unable to withdraw all the Elagabalian coins. en 2009 American Journal of Numismatics 127 https://books.google.com/books?id=gCJBAQAAIAAJ Elagabalian and Alexandrian pieces show a temple with a large area in front, surrounded by porticoes with a colonnade or gateway. Translations of or relating to the Roman emperor Elagabalus French: fr élagabalien Polish: pl heliogabalowy en eponyms en Roman Empire