▪ I. Tartarean, a.1
(tɑːˈtɛəriːən)
[f. L. Tartareus of or pertaining to Tartarus + -an.]
Of or belonging to the Tartarus of the ancients; hence, pertaining to hell or to purgatory; infernal.
| 1623 Cockeram, Tartarean, belonging to hell. 1667 Milton P.L. ii. 69 Mixt with Tartarean Sulphur, and strange fire. 1702 Pope Thebais 435 Drives the dead to dark Tartarean coasts. 1759 W. Wilkie Epigon. iv. 110 Many still, who yet enjoy the day, Must follow down the dark Tartarean way. 1870 Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 125 The tartarean impostor and his companions at once vanished. |
b. fig. (cf. infernal).
| 1806–7 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) iv. xxxii, Your ear is..engaged by the Tartarean yell of its driver. 1851 Carlyle Sterling i. iii. (1872) 14 At a safe distance..lie the tartarean copper forges of Swansea. |
▪ II. † Tartarean, a.2 Obs.
= Tartarian a.1
| 1759 Goldsm. Bee No. 6. ii, The other offered himself up as a sacrifice to the Tartarean enemy. 1804 C. B. Brown tr. Volney's View Soil U.S. (Philad. ed.) 364 A distinct race, with no Tartarean features. |