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adjective

Infernal adj.

Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. "The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy."

Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct. "The instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings."

Infernal machine, a machine or apparatus maliciously designed to explode, and destroy life or property.

Infernal stone (lapis infernalis), lunar caustic; formerly so called. The name was also applied to caustic potash.

Synonyms: Tartarean; Stygian; hellish; devilish; diabolical; satanic; fiendish; malicious.

noun

Infernal n. An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. (Obs.)

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"Infernal" Quotes from Famous Books

... him; we cannot pray for him if we hate him. Our weakness often feels it so hard not to hate our enemies, that our only way to get strength to keep this highest, hardest commandment is to begin by trying to pray for the foe, and then we gradually feel the infernal fires dying down in our temper, and come to be able to meet his evil with good, and his curses with blessings. It is a difficult lesson that Jesus sets us. It is a blessed possibility that Jesus opens for us, that our kindly emotions towards ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren

... of the torero—had not the frank, open air of a handsome young fellow with gay garments on his back, about to be applauded by a host of pretty women. Did apprehension of the approaching contest disturb his serenity? Had he seen in his dreams an infernal bull bearing a matador empaled upon his horns of red-hot steel? Nothing of the sort. This gloomy air was his wont since a twelvemonth. Without being on bad terms with his comrades, there no longer existed ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various

... boys keep those infernal redskins off me and I'll run down and pick him up and fetch him back before they can ...

— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin

... south, there is the vague dread of being driven thither from Virginia to Georgia, from Carolina to Alabama, or Louisiana, a change which, for reasons I have shown above, implies the passing from a higher into a lower circle of the infernal pit ...

— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation - 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble

... is an infernal scoundrel!" I exclaimed, throwing out my clenched hand, and hurrying on still faster. "Oh, that I could crush him with one blow ...

— The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I • Susanna Moodie

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