Ogygian

From Ogyges +‎ -ian.

• IPA^(key): /əʊˈdʒɪdʒi.ən/

Ogygian (not generally comparable, comparative more Ogygian, superlative most Ogygian)

1. Of, pertaining to, or during the reign of Ogyges, a mythical king of Attica
2. Relating to a great deluge in Attica during the rule of Ogyges
3. Of or pertaining to Ogygia, an island mentioned in Homer's Odyssey,
4. (by extension, comparative) primeval; of obscure antiquity.

   Synonym: age-old

   • 1885, George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways, Chapter 1:

     Brainstuff is not lean stuff;—the brainstuff of fiction is internal history, and to suppose it dull is the profoundest of errors; how deep, you will understand when I tell you that it is the very football of the holiday-afternoon imps below. They kick it for pastime; they are intelligences perverted. The comic of it, the adventurous, the tragic, they make devilish, to kindle their Ogygian hilarity.

• “Ogygian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.