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Webster 1913 Edition

Cimmerian

Cim-me′ri-an

,
Adj.
[L.
Cimmerius
.]
[Written also
Kimmerian
.]
1.
Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.
2.
Without any light; intensely dark.
In dark
Cimmerian
desert ever dwell.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cimmerian

CIMMERIAN

,
Adj.
Pertaining to Cimmerium, a town at the mouth of the Palus Maeotis. The ancients pretended that this country was involved in darkness; whence the phrase Cimmerian darkness, to denote a deep or continual obscurity. The country is now called Crimea, or Krim-Tartary.

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