stygian

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

STYGIAN, adjective [Latin] Pertaining to Styx, fabled by the ancients to be a river of hell over which the shades of the dead passed, or the region of the dead; hence, hellish; infernal. At that so sudden blaze, the stygian throng bent their aspect.
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