Tartarean
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Tartarean
1615–25; < Latin Tartare ( us ) of Tartarus ( see -eous) + -an
Example Sentences
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James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then too, shall Haemus cloven to his base Be shattered, and the huge Ceraunian hills,2 Once weapons of Tartarean Dis, immersed In Erebus, shall fill Himself with fear.
From Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton by Cowper, William
Then the hugest view of the extent of the universal sphere was that an iron mass would require nine days and nights to plunge from its Olympian height to its Tartarean depth.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
From his primeval throne was Kronos hurled Into the pit Tartarean, dark, profound, With all his troop of friends.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney
Virgil, dismissing Aneas from the Tartarean realm through "the ivory gate by which false dreams and fictitious visions are wont to issue," plainly wrought as a poet on imaginative materials.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
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