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Mezentian, a.|mɪˈzɛnʃən|
[f. Mezent-ius + -an.]
Comparable to the cruel action of Mezentius, a mythical Etruscan king, who caused living men to be bound face to face with corpses, and left to die of starvation (Virg. æn. viii. 485–8). So † Mezentism, action resembling that of Mezentius.
1659Fuller App. Inj. Innoc. iii. 81 A piece of Mezentism in his joyning of the Dead and Living together. 1837Syd. Smith Let. to Archd. Singleton Wks. 1859 II. 259/2 That fatal and Mezentian oath which binds the Irish to the English Church. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. i. I. 6 England..spared from the curse of the..Mezentian union with Italy,..developed its own common law. |