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
It makes an imaginative European giddy to look down into that Tartarean depth; but then the Bheestee is not imaginative.
From Behind the Bungalow by Edward Hamilton Aitken
I cast thee down, O Tartarean boor, into the infernal kitchen!...
From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White
Lance stood open-mouthed before a namesake of his own, whose huge monumental slab was upborne by the exertions of a kind of Tartarean cherub, solely consisting of a skull and a pair of bats' wings!
From The Pillars of the House, V1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Tartarean gloom was slightly relieved by torches ingeniously formed of strings of the candle-nut.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
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