Tartarean

[tahr-tair-ee-uh n]

adjective

of or relating to Tartarus; infernal.

Origin of Tartarean

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

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Examples from the Web for tartarean

Historical Examples of tartarean

The Tartarean part of the story is, in fact, post-Aeschylean.
Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays
AEschylus
Big domes of Tartarean Honeysuckle—all rosy pink with bloom—yet held their own.
A Garden with House Attached
Sarah Warner Brooks
The victor, sacrificing them with greedy teeth, plunged them into the Tartarean recesses of his capacious paunch.
The Fables of Phdrus
Phaedrus
Dost thou soothe the Elysian groves with thy tender song, or dost thou dwell upon a Tartarean Helicon?
Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors
Francesco Petrarca
You are at liberty, disbelieving it, to range the fields—Elysian and Tartarean—of all imagination.
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture
John Ruskin

British Dictionary definitions for tartarean

Tartarean

adjective

literary of or relating to Tartarus; infernal

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