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Word Meanings - ACHERONTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.

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  • INFERNALLY
    In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • GLOOMY
    1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
  • ACHERONTIC
    Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
  • DISMAL
    dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. dîme, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser. 2. Gloomy to the eye or
  • INFERNAL
    1. Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. Garth. 2. Of
  • ACHERON
    A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • HENCE
    ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
  • MORIBUND
    In a dying state; dying; at the point of death. The patient was comatose and moribund. Copland.
  • HENCEFORWARD
    From this time forward; henceforth.
  • DISMALNESS
    The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
  • HENCEFORTH
    From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
  • HEREHENCE
    From hence.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • THENCEFROM
    From that place.
  • THENCE
    see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
  • ARCHENCEPHALA
    The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
  • THENCEFORTH
    From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
  • WHENCEEVER
    Whencesoever.
  • SITHENCE; SITHENS
    Since. See Sith, and Sithen. Piers Plowman.

 

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