Ahabian

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    tyrannically monomaniac

Etymology

From Ahab + -ian, after the fictional captain in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick who is obsessed with killing a whale who once injured him.

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