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‖ malebolge|maleˈboldʒe|
[It. Malebolge, f. male pl. fem. of malo evil + bolge pl. of bolgia lit. ‘budget’. (The sing. form malebolgia has occasionally been used by Eng. writers.)]
The name given by Dante to his eighth circle in Hell, consisting of ten rock-bound concentric circular trenches, designated ‘bolge’. Used transf., chiefly with allusion either to the pool of filth in the second ‘bolgia’ (Canto xviii), or to the boiling pitch in the fifth ‘bolgia’ (Canto xxi).
1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. vii. 250 The malebolge of stock-brick and cement in which we have been so long wandering. 1884Q. Rev. Apr. 350 We..look down into a boiling malebolgia of steam and sulphur. 1894Scotsman 12 July, The channels that feed this devouring malebolge are the newspapers and the telegraph offices.
Hence maleˈbolgian, maleˈbolgic adjs., of or resembling the malebolge.
1883Harper's Mag. June 121/1, I confess having felt a..reluctance to immerse myself in this malebolgian mass of peat mud. 1883Pall Mall G. 16 Oct. 1/2 This Malebolgic pool of London's misery. |