Infernal /(?)/
In·fer·nal
Infernal
a.
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Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.
The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy.
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Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct.
The instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings.
Phrases & Compounds
- Infernal machine
- a machine or apparatus maliciously designed to explode, and destroy life or property.
- Infernal stone
- (lapis infernalis), lunar caustic; formerly so called. The name was also applied to caustic potash.
Infernal
n.
- An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. [Obs.]