NOUN
- (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon
How To Use Acheron In A Sentence
- A Stygian this time, his face tattooed in arcane designs that had been old when Acheron was new to the world. Archive 2009-12-01
- 1606, "It was a comedy to see what a crowding, as if it had been at a new play, there was upon the Acherontic strand. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
- The region of the catacombs was called the Acheronian and [361] Acherusian plain, and likewise the Elysian: and the stream, which ran by it, had the name of Acheron. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
- Which Acheron furrounds, th 'innavigable flood: J Conduct me through the regions void of light. The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
- Acherontic cave, he very cunningly appropriated his torch; and it was not until the matter became serious, that he could be induced to restore it. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
- Like only Acheronian plate or also Acheronian cloth, Acheronian light armor etc.? WarCry Network : Latest News
- Jude was too much affected to go on talking at first; she, too, was now such a mere cluster of nerves that all initiatory power seemed to have left her, and they proceeded through the fog like Acherontic shades for a long while, without sound or gesture. Jude the Obscure
- Guada-Lethe, which flows over against that city; and the lake Avernus, or the Acheronian fen, from the word Aharona, importing, _at the extremities_, a name given to that lake, which is near the ocean. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
- ` Well, 'said Orastes, ` I am no Acheronian, but I am versed in some of the arts, and the control of certain spirits which have cloaked themselves in material substance. The Conan Chronicles
- It simply signifies the ascent of the soul after death into the Olympian halls instead of descending into the Acheronian gulfs. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life