Cerberus
noun
Also Kerberos a dog, usually represented as having three heads, that guarded the entrance of the infernal regions.
Cerberean
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a word derived from
Cerberus.
Example Sentences
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Be this as it may, the evil spirit of jealousy, and with it the Cerberean whelps of feud and slander, no longer walk their rounds, in cultivated society.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A crew of hell-hounds never ceasing bark, With wide Cerberean mouth, full loud, and ring A hideous peal.
From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by John Trusler
The god of wrath who ruled in New York a hundred years, through the ministerial prerogatives, was guarded by a Cerberean legend.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
But what she flies she with her drags; she looks To find her thighs, and find her legs, and feet; But for those limbs Cerberean jaws are found.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
I must likewise take notice, that there are in Milton several Words of his own coining, as Cerberean, miscreated, Hell-doom'd, Embryon Atoms, and many others.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
