Cronian
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈkɹəʊniən/
Adjective

Cronian (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Saturnian; applied to the North Polar Sea.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
      As when two polar winds, blowing adverse / Upon the Cronian sea{{...}



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