Acherontic

Definition

Of, pertaining to or resembling Acheron (one of the rivers located in the underworld according to ancient Greek mythology).

Example Sentences

• "It was a Comedy, to see what a crowding (as if it had bene at a newe Play,) there was vpon the Acheronticque Strond,"
• "Fierce earthquakes tear the world, the heavens bow, A passage opens to the shades below: From acherontick shores black fiends ascend,"
• "Is Free Industry free to convert all our rivers into Acherontic sewers; England generally into a roaring sooty smith’s forge?"