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Cerberean, a.|sɜːˈbɪərɪən|
Improp. -ian.
[L. Cerbere-us, f. Cerberus.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling Cerberus. So Cerberic.
1628M. Laymon Syon's Plea 24 Such Cerberean Porters; as shut the gates upon Christs Friends, and intertain his foes. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 655 A cry of Hell Hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberean mouths. 1731Swift Cassinus & P., But hark, The loud Cerberian triple bark. 1787F. Burney Diary (1842) III. 410 By no means so much disconcerted as by a similar Cerberic detection. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. x. (1870) 90 Cerberean whelps of feud and slander. |