The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cerberean \Cer*be"re*an\, a. Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus. [Written also Cerberian.]
With wide Cerberean mouth.
--Milton.
Usage examples of "cerberean".
Its huge jaws writhe and snap, its tongue slings spit and foam over its flashing incisors, its eyes strain white and berserk in its black, Cerberean skull.
I am less concerned with his exactness as an image than with the possibilities of an emblematic and Cerberean mode of defining satire.
Its Cerberean functions might be set briefly in the context of genre itself and looked at through the lens of metaphor as an alternative mode of definition.
The confusion of public and private spheres in the pages of the press is echoed by an equally sinister confusion of literary discourse and the transmission of information, and it is here that Kraus performs the Cerberean function of satire by seeking to protect the imagination from rival and encroaching forms of discourse.