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‖ Tartarus, n.|ˈtɑːtərəs|
[L. Tartarus, a. Gr. τάρταρος.]
The infernal regions of ancient Greek and Roman mythology, or the lowest part of them; hence sometimes used for hell.
[1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 552 Spynk, sink with stynk ad Tertara Termagorum.] 1586E. Hoby tr. Cognet's Pol. Disc. Truth xxxi. 146 The strange kinde of punishmentes..prepared for the wicked in the gayle of vengeance, which he calleth Tartarus, a place of darkenesse and torments. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxviii. (1839) 445 For example, that they [the damned] are in Inferno, in Tartarus, or in the bottomless pit. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. iv. 60 Condemned unto the Tartara's of Hell. a1774Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 321 The enjoyments of Elysium and punishments of Tartarus. 1895Salmond Chr. Doctr. Immort. i. vii. 146 The incurably corrupt are hurled into Tartarus.
b. A place likened to Tartarus, in situation or character.
1821De Quincey Confess. i. (1822) 42 She never emerged from the dismal Tartarus of the kitchens, &c. to the upper air. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxi. 271 The temperature and foulness of air in the between-deck Tartarus can not be amended. 1887–8tr. Hugo's Notre-Dame viii. ii, This Tartarus was called simply The Question Chamber.
Hence ˈTartarus v. trans. nonce-wd., to consign to Tartarus (repr. Gr. ταρταροῦν, 2 Pet. ii. 4).
1856S. R. Maitland False Worship 31 The apostle's statement respecting the sinning Angels is, that, having been tartarus'd,..they have been reserved unto Judgment. |