Acherontic

== English == === Alternative forms === acherontic acherontical (obsolete) === Adjective === Acherontic Of, pertaining to or resembling Acheron (one of the rivers located in the underworld according to ancient Greek mythology). Coordinate terms: Cocytean, Lethean, Phlegethontic, Stygian (figurative) Of or pertaining to hell. Synonyms: hellish, infernal, Plutonian, Tartarean; see also Thesaurus:infernal 1623, George Langford, Search the Scriptures, London: John Clarke, Section 7, p. 43,[6] How did those Aegyptians storme, when Moses and Aaron, Crumwell and Cranmer came, to deliuer Gods Israel, from that Acheronticall ignorance? (figurative) Lacking joy and comfort; nearing death. Synonyms: bleak, cheerless, dismal, gloomy, lugubrious, moribund 1599, John Weever, Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut, and Newest Fashion, London: Thomas Bushell, The Thirde Weeke, Epig. 7,[9] Depart to blacke nights Acheronticke Cell, 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Part 3, Section 3, Member 4, Subsection 2, p. 701,[10] […] it is most odious, when an old Acheronticke dizard, that hath one foote in his graue, shall flicker after a young wench, what can be more detestable. ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === anchoretic