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An inhabitant of the infernal regions.
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Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.
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(by extension) Of or relating to a fire or inferno.
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Stygian, gloomy.
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Diabolical or fiendish.
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(as an expletive, not vulgar) Very annoying; damned.
Examples of infernal in a Sentence
It is also the name of a river in the infernal regions.
The programme was carried out by the so-called "infernal columns."
The lake of Avernus, as an entrance to the infernal regions, was sacred to her.
She reached out and put her hand over the ring, stopping its infernal winking.
In February 1884 there was a plot to blow up four London railway stations by means of clockwork infernal machines containing dynamite, brought from America.
Let us preserve the sacred fire for the moment of the struggle with the infernal powers!
Even though this allowed cotton prices to plummet and demand for cotton to increase, some of those fifty people got laid off, no doubt shaking their fists at the infernal gin as they stormed off the property.
It was represented as the entrance by which both Odysseus and Aeneas descended to the infernal regions, and as the abode of the Cimmerii.
This infernal sentence was actually carried out, and, life still lingering, the half-roasted carcass of the unhappy wretch, who endured everything with invincible heroism, was finally devoured by half-a-dozen of his fellow-rehels, who by way of preparation had been starved for a whole week beforehand.
The outcome of it was the despatch of some five or six Chouan desperadoes to Paris, three of whom exploded an infernal machine close to Bonaparte's carriage in the narrow streets near the Tuileries (3rd Nivose [24th of December] 1800).
Nergal accordingly relented, and Allatu became the queen of the infernal world.
The less it became possible, as time went on, to believe that Nero yet lived and would return as a living ruler, the greater was the tendency for his figure to develop into one wholly infernal and daemonic. The relation to the Parthians is also gradually lost sight of; and from being the adversary of Rome, Nero becomes the adversary of God and of Christ.
But for Ixion in Heaven, The Infernal Marriage, and Popanilla, Disraeli could not be placed among the greater writers of his kind; yet none of his imaginative books have been so little read as these.
The infernal security passes are gone, but now you have to kill four times as many other beings to get enough pink goop.
The description of the tortures suffered in the infernal regions is tolerably minute.
Infernal Machine - This game title was released by LucasArts in 1999 for the PC.
Other ancient writers, however, speak of his visit to the underworld; according to Plato, the infernal gods only " presented an apparition" of Eurydice to him.
Regular warfare was now at an end, although Turreau and his "infernal columns" still continued to scour the disaffected districts.
The rebellion would probably have died out but for the measures of the new Republican general Turreau, who wasted La Vendee so horribly with his "infernal columns" that he drove the peasants to take up arms once more.
But at the same time, urged by the infernal cabal of the queen and the comte dArtois, Louis XVI.
Well, shame on you for opening Pandora's Box with your infernal questioning!
Originally released on the Nintendo 64, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is a fun adventure video game filled with tons of action and exotic locations.
The college of the decans was conceived as moving, by their annual risings and settings, in an " eternal circuit " between the infernal and supernal regions.
The sky has opened, Beezlebub has dumped his infernal payload of obvious evil on an unsuspecting Earth.
His infernal cunning often defeated its own aims, checkmating him at the point of achievement by suggestions of duplicity or terror.
The first two are nothing more than the absence of all visible form and organization; the third degree is the abode of darkness; whilst the remaining seven are " the seven infernal halls," occupied by the demons, who are the incarnation of all human vices.