What is "abyss"

Abyss \A*byss"\, n. [L. abyssus a bottomless gulf, fr. Gr. ? bottomless; 'a priv. + ? depth, bottom.]

1. A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.

   Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss.
   --Milton.

   The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light.
   --Dryden.

2. Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.

   The abysses of metaphysical theology.
   --Macaulay.

   In unfathomable abysses of disgrace.
   --Burke.

3. (Her.) The center of an escutcheon.

   Note: This word, in its leading uses, is associated with the cosmological notions of the Hebrews, having reference to a supposed illimitable mass of waters from which our earth sprung, and beneath whose profound depths the wicked were punished.
   --Encyc. Brit.

late 14c., earlier abime (c.1300, from a form in Old French), from Late Latin abyssus "bottomless pit," from Greek abyssos (limne) "bottomless (pool)," from a- "without" (see a- (2)) + byssos "bottom," possibly related to bathos "depth."

n. 1 hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.) 2 (context frequently figurative English) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space. (First attested in the late 16^th century.) 3 Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound. (First attested in the late 16^th century.) 4 Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth. 5 An impending catastrophic happening. 6 (context heraldry English) The center of an escutcheon.

n. a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively) [syn: abysm]

Abyss may refer to:

Abyss is a name used for three distinct characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

'''Christopher Joseph ''' "Chris" Parks (born October 4, 1973), better known by his ring name Abyss, is an American professional wrestler currently signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is currently in his second reign as TNA World Tag Team Champion alongside Crazzy Steve as Decay.

As Abyss in TNA, Parks became a one-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, being the first of only two men to hold the title while competing under a mask ( Blue Demon, Jr. is the other). Abyss is the heaviest wrestler to hold the X Division Championship. He also captured the Television Championship twice, the NWA World Tag Team Championship once with A.J. Styles, and the TNA World Tag Team Championship twice - once with James Storm as The Revolution, and currently with Crazzy Steve and Rosemary called Decay.

Having won all the required championships, Abyss was the fourth man to complete the Triple Crown Championship and the second to complete the Grand Slam Championship. Parks also wrestled in TNA as Abyss' storyline brother/split personality Joseph Park.

In Thelemic mysticism, the Abyss is the great gulf or void between the phenomenal world of manifestation and its noumenal source.

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Abyss is novel by Troy Denning released on August 18, 2009. It is the third novel in the Fate of the Jedi series and published as a hardcover.

Abyss is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel written by David Weddle and Jeffrey Lang. It is part of the Star Trek: Section 31 miniseries and forms an early part of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch, developing some of the characters and plot lines introduced in the preceding Avatar books 1 and 2.

Abyss is the fourth album by British heavy metal band Lionsheart, released by Metaledge Records on 24 June 2004.

It is the last to feature Steve Grimmet on vocals

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Abyss, or more fully, the Infinite Layers of the Abyss, is a chaotic evil-aligned plane of existence. It is one of a number of alignment-based Outer Planes that form part of the standard Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) cosmology, used in the Planescape and Greyhawk campaign settings. The Abyss is also the name of one of the faith-based outer planes that form part of the Forgotten Realms cosmology. While the published 3rd-Edition source books indicate that the Abyss of the standard D&D cosmology is not the same plane as the Abyss of the Forgotten Realms cosmology, they are for all practical purposes identical.

Abyss (sometimes known as Journey Across the Abyss) is an adventure computer game released in 1984.

Narrative from magazine advert - "Can you journey across the long-forgotten Abyss and outwit the evil monsters that lurk in the shadows awaiting the foolhardy and careless adventurer. There are many bridges and many monsters. Will you be the one to make the Abyss safe to cross again."

Abyss was originally developed for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and submitted speculatively to CCS who requested some changes before agreeing to publish it. The game was subsequently ported to the BBC Micro model B and Acorn systems, although not by the original designer. A Commodore 64 version was begun by the original designer, but never finished.

It was written in ZX Spectrum BASIC, with a small amount of Z80 machine code to provide a colourful display for players completing the game. The game centres on a 2 dimensional maze seen from above. Users move around the maze, and when they reach a node they are presented with a challenge chosen at random.

In the BBC Micro version, one of the challenges was to fool the cyber-minotaur, "Alexisis", into giving you the correct code for one of the final exits of the game. Once all the challenges are completed, the player enters an arena and plays a clone of "Tron's Deadly Discs". This refinement was not present in the original ZX Spectrum version.

In religion, an abyss is a bottomless pit, or also a chasm that may lead to the underworld or hell.

In the Septuagint, or Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, the word represents both the original unfinished creation and the Hebrew tehom ("a surging water-deep"), which is used also in apocalyptic and kabbalistic literature and in the New Testament for hell; the place of punishment; in the Revised version of the Bible "abyss" is generally used for this idea. Primarily in the Septuagint cosmography the word is applied both to the waters under the earth which originally covered it, and from which the springs and rivers are supplied and to the waters of the firmament which were regarded as closely connected with those below.

In the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus there is an abyss between the righteous dead and the wicked dead in Sheol.

In the Book of Revelation, Abaddon is called "the angel of the abyss".

Abyss is a steel roller coaster located at the Adventure World amusement park in Perth, Western Australia. The $12-million attraction was announced in April 2013, and construction began the following month. Six months later, the ride opened to the general public on 1 November 2013.

The Abyss is a Euro-Fighter, a roller coaster model from Gerstlauer that features a "beyond-vertical" first drop which exceeds 90 degrees. In addition to several inversions, the Abyss reaches a top speed of along the two-minute, ride. The roller coaster has been well received by the public.

Abyss is the fifth studio album from American singer-songwriter and eponymous band, Chelsea Wolfe released on August 7, 2015 in CD, vinyl, and digital download formats through Sargent House.