Acherontic
别名
释义与例句
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1.
Of, pertaining to or resembling Acheron (one of the rivers located in the underworld according to ancient Greek mythology).
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2.
Of or pertaining to hell.
比喻1623, George Langford, Search the Scriptures, London: John Clarke, Section 7, p. 43, How did those Aegyptians storme, when Moses and Aaron, Crumwell and Cranmer came, to deliuer Gods Israel, from that Acheronticall ignorance?
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3.
Lacking joy and comfort; nearing death.
比喻1599, John Weever, Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut, and Newest Fashion, London: Thomas Bushell, The Thirde Weeke, Epig. 7, 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, […] 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.