cimmerian
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (literally, literary or poetic) Perpetually dark or gloomy.Examples: "There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell."; "As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell."; "...the darkness of antiquated barbarism, in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours."formalliterallyliterarypoetic
2. (figuratively) Mentally dark; ignorant; benighted.Examples: "The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne."figurativelyformal
noun (English)
1. (Greek mythology) Any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness.Examples: "The city, there, of the Cimmerians stands With clouds and darkness veil’d, on whom the sun Deigns not to look with his beam-darting eye,"; "On their mysterious shores were the improbable homes of impossible peoples. The Great Sea, the Broad Sea, the Boundless Sea; the Ethiopians, "dwelling far away, the most distant of men," and the Cimmerians, "covered with darkness and cloud," where "baleful night is spread over timid mortals.""Greek
2. (historical) The prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy.Examples: "1867 to 1885, Lactantius (240–320 C.E.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, translated by William Fletcher Varro relates that there were ten Sibyls,—the first of the Persians, the second the Libyan, the third the Delphian, the fourth the Cimmerian..."historical
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