Acherontic

English Alternative forms en acherontic en acherontical obsolete Adjective en adjective Of, pertaining to or resembling Acheron one of the rivers located in the underworld according to ancient Greek mythology. en Cocytean Lethean Phlegethontic Stygian en 1607 Thomas Dekker (writer) Thomas Dekker A Knights Conjuring London William Barley 4 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20067.0001.001 It was a Comedy, to see what a crowding (as if it had bene at a newe Play,) there was vpon the Acheronticque Strond, en 1726 anonymous The British Apollo London Theodore Sanders 3rd 106 https://archive.org/details/britishapolloco01lond/page/106/mode/1up?q=%22were+dead%22 Fierce earthquakes tear the world, the heavens bow,A passage opens to the shades below:From acherontick shores black fiends ascend, en 1867 w:Thomas Carlyle Shooting Niagara: and After? London Chapman and Hall 10 53 https://archive.org/details/shootingniagaraa00carluoft/page/53/mode/1up?q=Acherontic Is Free Industry free to convert all our rivers into Acherontic sewers; England generally into a roaring sooty smith’s forge? en 1987 Paul Breslin The Psycho-Political Muse https://archive.org/details/psychopoliticalm0000bres/page/179/mode/1up?q=Acherontic 8 179 University of Chicago Press Although Wright’s underwater man in Venice may remind us of the ghosts of the drowned in the Ohio River, this Italian fantasy is more benign; the canal is not like the Acherontic Ohio en figurative Of or pertaining to hell. en hellish infernal Plutonian Tartarean Thesaurus:infernal 1623, George Langford, Search the Scriptures, London: John Clarke, Section7, p.43, How did those Aegyptians storme, when Moses and Aaron, Crumwell and Cranmer came, to deliuer Gods Israel, from that Acheronticall ignorance? en 1638 Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet Thomas Herbert Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique London Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop 17 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03066.0001.001 Both sex, hideously cut, and gash, and pink in sundry works, their browes, nose, cheeks, armes, brest, back, belly, thighes and legges in Acherontick order: in a word, are so deformed, that if they had studied to become antick, they might be praised for invention. en 1895 w:Thomas Hardy w:Jude the Obscure New York Harper 1896 Part 6, Chapter 4, p. 428 https://archive.org/details/judeobscure00hard/page/428/mode/1up?q=Acherontic they proceeded through the fog like Acherontic shades for a long while, without sound or gesture. en figurative Lacking joy and comfortThomas Blount, Glossographia, London: George Sawbridge, 1661.; nearing death. en bleak cheerless dismal gloomy lugubrious moribund 1599, John Weever, Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut, and Newest Fashion, London: Thomas Bushell, The Thirde Weeke, Epig.7, Depart to blacke nights Acheronticke Cell, 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Part3, Section3, Member4, Subsection2, p.701, it is most odious, when an old Acheronticke dizard, that hath one foote in his graue, shall flicker after a young wench, what can be more detestable. en 1860 w:Walter Thornbury Turkish Life and Character, London Smith, Elder 1 9 213 https://archive.org/details/turkishlifeandc00thorgoog/page/n249/mode/1up?q=Acherontic I see no owls, though I am told that at night they fill these Acherontic woods with demon hooting en 1947 w:Frank Waters The Yogi of Cockroach Court Chicago Sage Books 1972 10 225 https://archive.org/details/yogiofcockroachc00waterich/page/225/mode/1up?q=acherontic It was twilight in the streets. On every corner glowed lights from doors and dusty windows. Acherontic figures lounged by lazily or sat against the walls. en 2001 w:Timothy West A Moment Towards the End of the Play… London Nick Hern Books 22 176 https://archive.org/details/momenttowardsend0000west/page/176/mode/1up?q=Acherontic In Manchester, our designer Roy Stonehouse had built the dark lanes of his [Charles Dickens Dickens’] Acherontic township on the low-lying land behind Water Street Translations pertaining to or resembling Acheron Esperanto: eo Akerona, eo Aĥerona French: fr achérontique German: de acherontisch Greek: Ancient Greek: grc Ἀχερούσιος Portuguese: pt aquerôntico References Anagrams en accehinort anchoretic