acherontic

acherontic
Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.

Both ſex hideouſly cut, and gaſh, and pink in ſundry works, their browes, noſe, cheeks, armes, breſt, back, belly, thighes and legges in Acherontick order: in a word, are ſo deformed, that if they had ſtudied to become antick, they might be praiſed for invention.


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