Cerbereanadj.
/səːˈbɪərɪən/ Of, pertaining to, or resembling Cerberus.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [adjective] > of characters from classical mythology > of Cerberus
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Cerberean1628
triceptic1716
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Cerberic1787
trilinguar1824
1628 A. Leighton Appeal to Parl. 24 Such Cerberean Porters; as shut the gates upon Christs Friends, and intertain his foes.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 655 A cry of Hell Hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberean mouths. View more context for this quotation
1731 J. Swift Cassinus & Peter But hark, The loud Cerberian triple bark.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1870) x. 90 Cerberean whelps of feud and slander.
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Cerberic n.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [adjective] > of characters from classical mythology > of Cerberus
triceps1577
Cerberean1628
triceptic1716
trifaucian1716
Cerberic1787
trilinguar1824
1787 F. Burney Diary 25 July (1842) III. 410 By no means so much disconcerted as by a similar Cerberic detection.
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