Tartarean

American

[tahr-tair-ee-uhn] / tɑrˈtɛər i ən /

adjective

of or relating to Tartarus; infernal.

Tartarean British

/ -ˈtɑːrɪ-, tɑːˈtɛərɪən /

adjective

literary of or relating to Tartarus; infernal

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Etymology

Origin of Tartarean

1615–25; < Latin Tartare ( us ) of Tartarus ( -eous ) + -an

Example Sentences

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From his primeval throne was Kronos hurled Into the pit Tartarean, dark, profound, With all his troop of friends.

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Tartarean Honeysuckle, with three accessory buds in each axil.

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He seized the wand that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft slumbers seals the wakeful eye; That drives the dead to dark Tartarean coasts,435 Or back to life compels the wand'ring ghosts.

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We stand before it like Sisyphus before the great rock which he rolled so laboriously and so vainly up that Tartarean hill.

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I cast thee down, O Tartarean boor, into the infernal kitchen....

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