barathrumn.
/ˈbarəθrəm/ A pit, gulf. Hence:
a. A deep pit at Athens, into which criminals condemned to death were thrown.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > place of > specific sites
no man's landc1350
St Thomas (a, also of) Watering(s)c1405
gemonies1598
Execution-Dock1694
barathrum1849
1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece V. ii. xxxix. 69 Aristeides himself is reported to have said, ‘If the Athenians were wise, they would cast both of us into the barathrum.’
1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece viii. 251 Had the body been..cast into the barathrum.
b. (earlier in English.) The abyss, hell.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > as pit or abyss
hell pitOE
pitOE
abysmc1350
hell-holec1400
abyssc1460
bisme1483
pota1500
barathrum?1510
bottomless pit1526
limbo-lake1558
?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. Aijv Trysed to baratrum, tossed in fere.
1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. B3 He flung away in a fury, and leapt into Barathrum.
c. An insatiable extortioner or glutton (so in Italian).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] > one who
wringera1300
askera1325
extortionerc1375
exactor1382
scaffer?a1513
shaver1534
caterpillar1541
bloodsucker?1555
suck-purse1586
griper1587
extortor1590
exacter1596
extorter1605
barathrum1609
wreather1648
shark1713
vampire1741
bleeder1846
flayer1865
extortionist1885
Shylock1894
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony > glutton
glutton?c1225
glutc1394
globberc1400
glofferc1440
gluttoner1482
gourmanda1492
ravener1496
belly1526
golofer1529
lurcher1530
cormorant1531
flesh-fly1532
full-belly1536
belly-godc1540
flap-sauce1540
gourmander1542
gully-gut1542
locust1545
glosser1549
greedy-guts1550
hungry gut1552
belly-slave1562
fill-belly1563
grand paunch1569
belly-paunch1570
belly-swainc1571
trencher-slave1571
slapsauce1573
gorche1577
helluo1583
gormandizer1589
eat-all1598
engorger1598
guts1598
guller1604
gourmandist1607
barathrum1609
eatnell1611
snapsauce1611
Phaeacian?1614
gutling1617
overeater1621
polyphage1623
tenterbelly1628
gut-head1629
stiffgut1630
gobble-guts1632
gulist1632
polyphagian1658
fill-paunch1659
gype1662
gulchin1671
stretch-gut1673
gastrolater1694
gundy-gut1699
guttler1732
gobbler1755
trencher-hero1792
gorger1817
polyphagist1819
battenera1849
stuff-guts1875
chowhound1917
gannet1929
Billy Bunter1939
guzzle-guts1959
garbage can1963
foodaholic1965
1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. D4v A bottomlesse Barathrum, a mercilesse mony-monger.
1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts iii. ii. sig. G2v You Barathrum of the shambells.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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