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Lethean

Lethean \Le*the"an\ (l[-e]*th[=e]"an), a. [L. Lethaeus, Gr. lh`qaios or lhqai^os.] Of or pertaining to Lethe; resembling in effect the water of Lethe.
--Milton. Barrow.

Usage examples of "lethean".

More than just the four lethean patches lent the bracelet value, although each of those little patches cost at least a hundred miterons on the black market.

With no time to waste, she had to use one of the lethean patches on Sabin at the first opportunity.

Not that she needed to know anything except how to get a lethean patch on him without his knowledge.

One of the lethean patches was poised on her right index finger, a special adhesive holding it there.

King, the Prince, and Earl Rivers ride from brilliant sunlight into Lethean darkness.

It spoke, and in its mellow tones there rippled the wild music of Lethean streams.

The theory associated with this Lethean draught is confirmed by its responsive correspondence with many unutterable experiences, vividly felt or darkly recognised, in our deepest bosom.

Excessive pain, whether it be physical or mental, cannot last long,--and human anguish wound up to its utmost quivering-pitch finds at the very height of desolation, a strange hushing, Lethean calm.

There was also a small capsule of Lethean dust, that unpleasant drug which affects the psychokinetic feedback mechanism.

As an injury to the cerebellum causes purpose tremor, so Lethean dust causes PK tremor.

Macduff, remembering the Lethean dust, began to edge towards the door.

Then in 1945 the figure of the drowned Antinous, borne along somehow on that Lethean current, came again to the surface in an unfinished essay, Canticle of the Soul and its True Freedom, written just before the advent of a serious illness.