Acherontic

Definitions

1. 1

   Of, pertaining to or resembling Acheron (one of the rivers located in the underworld…

   Of, pertaining to or resembling Acheron (one of the rivers located in the underworld according to ancient Greek mythology).

   • It was a Comedy, to see what a crowding (as if it had bene at a newe Play,) there was vpon the Acheronticque Strond,
   • Fierce earthquakes tear the world, the heavens bow, A passage opens to the shades below: From acherontick shores black fiends ascend,
   • Is Free Industry free to convert all our rivers into Acherontic sewers; England generally into a roaring sooty smith’s forge?
2. 2

   Of or pertaining to hell.

   • 1623, George Langford, Search the Scriptures, London: John Clarke, Section 7, p. 43, How did those Aegyptians storme, when Moses and Aaron, Crumwell and Cranmer came, to deliuer Gods Israel, from that Acheronticall ignorance?
   • […] they proceeded through the fog like Acherontic shades for a long while, without sound or gesture.
3. 3

   Lacking joy and comfort

   Lacking joy and comfort; nearing death.

   • 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,
   • I see no owls, though I am told that at night they fill these Acherontic woods with demon hooting […]
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      Alternative form of Acherontic.

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