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Webster 1913 Edition
Infernal
In-fer′nal
,Adj.
1.
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. Garth.
2.
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 conductThe instruments or abettors in such
infernal
dealings. Addison.
Syn. – Tartarean; Stygian; hellish; devilish; diabolical; satanic; fiendish; malicious.
In-fer′nal
,Noun.
An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.
[Obs.]
Drayton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Infernal
INFERN'AL
,Adj.
1.
Properly, pertaining to the lower regions, or regions of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. Hence,2.
Pertaining to hell; inhabiting hell; as infernal spirits.3.
Hellish; resembling the temper of infernal spirits; malicious; diabolical; very wicked and detestable.INFERN'AL
,Noun.
Infernal stone [Lapis infernalis.] a name formerly given to lunar caustic, a substance prepared from an evaporated solution of silver, or from crystals of silver.
Lunar caustic is nitrate of silver fused and cast in small cylinders.