cimmerian
see also: Cimmerian
Pronunciation
Cimmerian
Pronunciation
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see also: Cimmerian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /sɪˈmɪəɹɪən/
cimmerian
- (poetic) perpetually dark or gloomy
- 1631: Milton, L'Allegro
- There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
- 1740: George Frideric Handel and Charles Jennens, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
- As ragged as thy locks,
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
- As ragged as thy locks,
- 1820: Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry
- ...the darkness of antiquated barbarism, in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VI,
- The glimpse of blue vault far above only heightened the cimmerian gloom of the canyon, and the frowning rocks, which rose abruptly gave one the impression that they were on the point of crashing into the ravine.
- 1631: Milton, L'Allegro
- (figuratively) mentally dark; ignorant
- 1770: Baron D'Holbach, The System of Nature
- The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne.
- 1770: Baron D'Holbach, The System of Nature
- German: kimmerisch
Cimmerian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /sɪˈmɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
cimmerian (plural cimmerians)
- (Greek mythology) Any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness.
- 1791, Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, translated by William Cowper
- 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,
- The city, there, of the Cimmerians stands
- 1900, Jack London, The Shrinkage of the Planet
- 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."
- 1791, Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, translated by William Cowper
- one of the Cimmerii, ancient equestrian nomads of Indo-European origin
- 1588, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
- Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian
Doth make your honour of his body's hue,
Spotted, detested, and abominable.
- Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian
- 1902, Encyclopedia Britannica
- The Phrygian power was broken in the 9th or 8th century B.C. by the Cimmerians, who entered Asia Minor through Armenia
- 1910, Herodotus (484 BCE–425 BCE), History of Herodotus, translated by George Rawlinson
- In his reign the Cimmerians, driven from their homes by the nomads of Scythia, entered Asia and captured Sardis
- 1588, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
- (historical) the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy.
- 1867 to 1885, Lactantius (240–320 CE), 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...
- 1867 to 1885, Lactantius (240–320 CE), Ante-Nicene Fathers, translated by William Fletcher
- Portuguese: cimério
- Spanish: cimerio
- French: Cimmérien
- German: Kimmerier, Kimmerierin
- Italian: Cimmero
- Portuguese: cimério
- Russian: киммери́ец
- Spanish: cimerio
cimmerian
- Pertaining to the ancient Cimmerians.
- Characteristic of Cimmeria; especially describing particularly dense darkness etc.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- there it sleepeth, here it slumbreth: more or lesse they are ever darknesses, yea Cimmerian darknesses.
- German: kimmerisch
- the language of the Cimmerians, possibly belonging to the Iranian branch
- German: Kimmerisch
- Russian: киммерийский
cimmerian (not comparable)
- related to the prehistoric continent of Cimmeria
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