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Webster 1913 Edition
Acroceraunian
Acˊro-ce-rau′ni-an
,Adj.
[L.
acroceraunius
, fr. Gr. [GREEK] high, n. pl. [GREEK] heights + [GREEK] thunderbolt.] Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of “thunder-smitten” peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia.
Shelley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Acroceraunian
ACROCERAU'NIAN
,Adj.
An epithet applied to certain mountains between Epirus and Illyricum, in the 41st degree of latitude. They project into the Adriatic, and are so termed from being often struck with lightning.
Definition 2024
Acroceraunian
Acroceraunian
English
Adjective
Acroceraunian (comparative more Acroceraunian, superlative most Acroceraunian)
- Of or relating to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia.
- 1854, Herman Melville, The Lightning-Rod Man
- What grand irregular thunder, thought I, standing on my hearthstone among the Acroceraunian hills, as the scattered bolts boomed overhead and crashed down among the valleys, every bolt followed by zigzag irradiations, and swift slants of sharp rain, which audibly rang, like a charge of spear-points, on my low shingled roof.
- 1854, Herman Melville, The Lightning-Rod Man
Translations
relating to the high mountain range of thunder-smitten peaks
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