Crossword clues for stygian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stygian \Styg"i*an\, a. [L. Stygius, fr. Styx, Stygis, Gr. ?, ?, the Styx.] Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.
At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng
Bent their aspect.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to Styx or the nether world," 1560s, from Latin Stygius, from Greek Stygios, from Styx (genitive Stygos); see Styx.
Wiktionary
a. dark and gloomy.
Wikipedia
Stygian refers to the River Styx of the underworld Hades in Greek mythology.
Stygia or Sygian may also refer to:
Usage examples of "stygian".
Though the rapidly falling temperature of the air outside only whispered of approaching autumn, Bunyanesque lengths of amputated oak crackled for attention within the Stygian depths of a corner fireplace fashioned of hand-laid river rock.
On either side rose cliffs of darkness, and beneath, like sheets of cold moonlight, flowed the Genesee, a Dantesque effect of jet and silver, Stygian in its intensity and indescribably mournful.
Perhaps Jones might have seen him in that light, and have recollected the passage where the Sibyl, in order to procure an entrance for Eneas, presents the keeper of the Stygian avenue with such a sop.
The dark star nearby hosted no planets at all, and so Kline Station rode a slow orbit far out of its gravity well, cresting the Stygian cold.
On its rainiest and darkest night, the outer world never had darkness comparable to this Stygian space.
Most of these riders, for instance, are Tibu, of mixed Stygian and Negro blood.
Very soon the largest bunkers became visible, hulking black-on-black out of the stygian darkness.
Sometimes they trade ostrich plumes they got from the Stygians, who in turn got them from the black tribes of Kush, which lies south of Stygia.
The Stygian flood, and Scylla and Charybdis, are found among the legends of the Caribs.
Indeede in sleepe, The slouth full body that doth love to steepe His lustlesse limbs, and drowne his baser mind, Doth praise thee oft, and oft from Stygian deepe, Calles thee his goddesse, in his errour blind, And great dame Nature's hand-maide, chearing every kinde.
Then downe to ground fell that deformed Masse,Breathing out clouds of sulphure fowle and blacke,In which a puddle of contagion was,More loathd then Lerna, or then Stygian lake,That any man would nigh awhaped make.
Sharpe was lying flat on the deck now, reaching toward Braithwaite, grinding the glass on the rough planking, taking the sound ever nearer to the secretary who tried to see something, anything, in the stygian darkness.
This was the temple of Jullah, which the black folk worshipped in opposition to Set, the Serpent-god worshipped by the Chagas in imitation of their Stygian ancestors.
Down a while He sate, and round about him saw unseen: At last as from a Cloud his fulgent head And shape Starr bright appeer'd, or brighter, clad With what permissive glory since his fall Was left him, or false glitter: All amaz'd At that so sudden blaze the STYGIAN throng Bent thir aspect, and whom they wish'd beheld, Thir mighty Chief returnd: loud was th' acclaime: Forth rush'd in haste the great consulting Peers, Rais'd from thir dark DIVAN, and with like joy Congratulant approach'd him, who with hand Silence, and with these words attention won.
When they were together on the flat slab just after the crawl between two counterbalanced boulders that was later to be known as the Keyhole, Le Cagot struck off a magnesium flare, and the stygian chaos of that great cavern was seen for the first time in the numberless millennia of its existence.