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Acherontic

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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,"

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Acherontic. alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    Of or pertaining to hell. figuratively

    "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?"

  4. 4
    Lacking joy and comfort; nearing death. figuratively

    "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,"

Adjective
  1. 1
    dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades wordnet

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