Pandemonian
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌpæn.dɪˈməʊ.ni.ən/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pandemonian is an adjective meaning Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
Meaning
Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
More Meanings
- One who takes part in a pandemonium; a rioter.
Example Sentences
How could the private gentlemen of our Church militant here on earth march forth, when their Generals were afraid to attack the pandemonian army?
We bid all the tricks, technicalities, and pettifoggeries, whereby law has been made the handmaid of OPPRESSION, be gone to the limbos of vanity and pandemonian mint which gave them birth.
[…]it was a rush and a jump and a caper, a shooting out of legs and arms, hair dishevelled dancing about the face, dresses flying horizontal this way and that, hats whirling up to the ceiling and back, shouting and screaming, a pandemonian noise of thump, thump, thump, thump on the hard floor.
Then, Gentlemen, said he, but not till then, shall you see hurled down from their lofty pedestals, those abominable reptiles, monsters, and demons, the gods of corruption, whose images, like the plagues of Egypt, now every where blast our light; whose pandemonian temples are seen in every rotten borough, and whose tottering cathedral, once a Christian chapel, stands near the Treasury.
Word Forms
- pandemonians
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pandemoniac, pandemoniacal, pandemonious, pandemonic, pandemonistic, demonian.
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