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Ploutonian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πλουτώνιος (Ploutṓnios) + -an. By surface analysis, Plouton + -ian.

Meanings

1. (form-of, rare) Rare form of Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld”).
   form of Plutonian
   • Although The Demeter births the Ploutonian figure that initiates Lucy’s ordeal, it will be Jesus Christ that resolves her wayward vagabonding. 2012, Noël Montague-Étienne Rarignac, “The Overturned Lamp”, in The Theology of Dracula: Reading the Book of Stoker as Sacred Text, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 189:
   • At Eleusis, there were three places recognized as entrances to the Underworld. There is the Ploutonian Cave, which you encountered earlier. The Kallichoron Well, the Well of Beautiful Dances, was supposed to be an entrance to Hades and is really close to the Ploutonian Cave. 2024, Gwendolyn Reece, “The Mysteries”, in The Waters of Mnemosyne: Ancient Greek Religion for Modern Pagans, Woodbury, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN:
   • The key which opes the well-like orifice / That leads to the Ploutonian abyss / Was given him, and when he opened it / Dense smoke ascended from the dreadful pit, / As from a mighty furnace, and the sun / Through smoke-beclouded air showed dim and dun; […] 1914, James Morgan Pryse, “Initiation […]”, in The Restored New Testament: The Hellenic Fragments, Freed from the Pseudo-Jewish Interpolations, Harmonized, and Done into English Verse and Prose […], New York, N.Y.: John M. Pryse; London: John M. Watkins […], →OCLC, page 422, lines 655–660:

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