Saturnally
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Saturnally is an adverb meaning (rare) Under the influence of Saturn; gloomily.
Meaning
(rare) Under the influence of Saturn; gloomily.
Example Sentences
according as they have more or lesse removed themselves from their spirituality, so are they more or lesse merily and Giovially, or rudely and Saturnally incorporated: Whence proceedeth the infinite variety of so much matter created.
But if it be requisite to narrate what follows from the conception of Porphyry, it must be said, that the soul lives indeed intellectually and Saturnally on high, but descends first to the conception of a political life, which is Jovian.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include saturninely, gloomily, gloomingly, gloomfully, blackly, darkly.
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