Gorgonianadj.2
/ɡɔːˈɡəʊnɪən/, U.S. /ɡɔrˈɡoʊniən/ Of or pertaining to the Gorgon; resembling the Gorgon, or the effect of the Gorgon's look; Gorgon-like, terrible. Of a shield: Bearing the Gorgon's visage.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective] > of aspect > of or relating to gorgon or Medusa
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Medusean1608
Gorgonian1616
medusal1939
1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes cxxxiii, in Wks. I. 815 On one side..Were seene your vgly Centaures..Gorgonian scolds, and Harpyes.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 297 The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 414 Smear'd as she was with black Gorgonean Blood.
a1785 R. Glover Athenaid (1787) II. xi. 214 Still the sound Of her gorgonian shield my ears retain.
1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air §53 The Gorgonian cold, and venomous agony, that turns living men to stone.
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gorˈgonian
gorˈgonian adj.1 pertaining to the gorgonias or their family. Also n., a polyp of the family.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > of or relating to the Anthozoa > relating to order Alcyonaria > relating to the gorgonias
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > suborder Gorgonacea > family Gorgoniidae > genus Gorgonia
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1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. v. 168 In the vicinity of volcanic islands in the Polar seas, corallines and gorgonians [occur].
1884 Nature 17 July 281/1 The numerous species that live clinging to the branches of gorgonians..The gorgonian corals of many species.
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