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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 (I am afraid I used a stronger word) old fool told me?" I exclaimed to Stephen. "He says that we must be prepared to state exactly when that other infernal old fool, Brother John, will turn up at Beza Town, and that if we don't we shall have our throats ...

— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard

... in books that would have been sealed to even Jim's immediate forebears, rich in all possible mechanical appliances for the ease of life, speculated whether Reardon had, in the old days, been good for Jeff. Could he, with his infernal luck, have been good for any youth of Jeff's impetuous credulity? Mightn't Jeff have got the idea that life is an easy job? The colonel felt now that he had always distrusted Reardon's bluff bonhomie, ...

— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

... but one of the bullets from that infernal picket had passed through his body. The gallant creature had never winced nor weakened, but had gone while life was in him. One instant I was secure on the swiftest, most graceful horse in Massena's army. The next he lay upon his ...

— The Adventures of Gerard • Arthur Conan Doyle

... were the questions that men asked one another, as both aristocrats and sansculottes paused in their bloody labours. It was close at hand. So close at hand that they could discern the tramp of marching feet. In the infernal din of that fight upon the stairs they had not caught the sound of this approach until now that the new-comers—whoever they might be—were at the very ...

— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini

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— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

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