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Acherontic

adjective
1.
Dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades.  Synonyms: Acheronian, Stygian.  "Upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"






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"Acherontic" Quotes from Famous Books



... du pays, heavily drugged and made bitter with Paracelsian laudanum. Under that strange patchwork quilt so imaginative a soul as Clarian could not fail to dream. It was a great pity I had not been more circumspect, for the boy was already too deeply steeped in those Acherontic waters. His mother, like many other women, had loved to wander along the dreamy paths of sentimental theology, clothing from her own beautiful mind the dim, unsubstantial spectres that beckoned her, and accepting all their mystic utterances, in blind faith, for genuine oracles of God. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various



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