Ogygian
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Ogygian (not generally comparable, comparative more Ogygian, superlative most Ogygian)
- Of, pertaining to, or during the reign of Ogyges, a mythical king of Attica
- Relating to a great deluge in Attica during the rule of Ogyges
- Of or pertaining to Ogygia, an island mentioned in Homer's Odyssey,
- (by extension, comparative) primeval; of obscure antiquity.
- Synonym: age-old
- 1885, George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways, Chapter 1:
- Brainstuff is not lean stuff;—the brainstuff of fiction is internal history, and to suppose it dull is the profoundest of errors; how deep, you will understand when I tell you that it is the very football of the holiday-afternoon imps below. They kick it for pastime; they are intelligences perverted. The comic of it, the adventurous, the tragic, they make devilish, to kindle their Ogygian hilarity.
References
[edit]- “Ogygian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.