单词 | tartarean |
释义 | Tartareanadj.1 a. Of or belonging to the Tartarus of the ancients; hence, pertaining to hell or to purgatory; infernal. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] > of classical mythology hellish1557 Acherontic1597 Tartareal1602 Tartareous1619 Tartarean1623 Tartarine1656 Hadean1845 Tartarian1864 Tartaraean1872 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Tartarean, belonging to hell. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 69 Mixt with Tartarean Sulphur, and strange fire. View more context for this quotation 1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 31 Drives the Dead to dark Tartarean Coasts. 1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad iv. 110 Many still, who yet enjoy the day, Must follow down the dark Tartarean way. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 125 The tartarean impostor and his companions at once vanished. b. figurative (cf. infernal adj.). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > hellishness > [adjective] hellish1542 Tophetical1684 Tartarean1806 society > morality > moral evil > [adjective] > like hell hellish1542 Tartareous1619 Tophetical1684 Tartarean1806 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iv. 81 Your ear is..engaged by the Tartarean yell of its driver. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. iii. 22 At a safe distance..lie the tartarean copperforges of Swansea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2019). † Tartareanadj.2 Obsolete. = Tartarian adj.1 ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Turk > [adjective] Tartarian1590 Tartarish1670 Tartarean1759 Tartaric1811 Tartarized1878 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [adjective] > land of Tartars Tartarish1670 Tartarean1759 Tartaric1811 1759 O. Goldsmith Bee 10 Nov. 187 The other offered himself up as a sacrifice to the Tartarean enemy. 1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 364 A distinct race, with no Tartarean features. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.11623adj.21759 |
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