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adjective

Infernal adj.

Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. "The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy."

Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct. "The instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings."

Infernal machine, a machine or apparatus maliciously designed to explode, and destroy life or property.

Infernal stone (lapis infernalis), lunar caustic; formerly so called. The name was also applied to caustic potash.

Synonyms: Tartarean; Stygian; hellish; devilish; diabolical; satanic; fiendish; malicious.

noun

Infernal n. An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. (Obs.)

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"Infernal" Quotes from Famous Books

... "a delicate and extremely polite manner of referring to his imprisonment in one of those infernal iron cages at Loches." (Pray notice that the ...

— In Chteau Land • Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

... of the Wisconsin, who had hidden behind the stove pipe, was asked by Mr. Smith what he thought they were, whether it might not be an infernal machine. Mr. Harger said he had never known one to explode. He said when he was reporting legislative proceedings the members drew those with their stationery, from the superintendent of public property, but he had no idea what ...

— Peck's Sunshine - Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, - Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 • George W. Peck

... gun shot a little bit ago?" he asked. "You two are making such an infernal racket, I can't tell what ...

— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie

... idea why the self-so-called Benjamin Bathurst, who, until now, was well-behaved and seemed to take his confinement philosophically, should suddenly make this rash and fatal attempt, unless it was because of those infernal dunderheads of madhouse doctors who have been bothering him. Only this afternoon they deliberately handed him a bundle of newspapers—Prussian, Austrian, French, and English—all dated within the last month. They wanted they said, to see how he would react. ...

— He Walked Around the Horses • Henry Beam Piper

... of dynamite the lurid clouds are riven; Again with heat and sulphur smoke the troops are backward driven. All day, all night, all day again, with that infernal host They strive in vain for mastery. Each vantage gained is lost,— On comes the bellowing flood of flame in furious wrath its own to claim; Resistless in its awful aim each space is bridged ...

— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various

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