pandemonious
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pandemonium + -ous.
Adjective
[edit]pandemonious (comparative more pandemonious, superlative most pandemonious)
- Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
- 1895, Sam Flint, “Pandemonium”, in On the Road to the Lake, Chicago, Ill.: Charles H. Kerr & Company, […], page 76:
- One ponderous cloud of smoke, blacker than midnight, remained unchanging above the pandemonious lake.
- 1898, Metaphysical Magazine: A Monthly Review of the Occult Sciences and Metaphysical Philosophy, page 415:
- Behold how my words have died from all the ages, and nothing can be heard but the grating sounds of your pandemonious conclaves.
- 1899 July, “Richard Blundell, the Collier Artist of Neston”, in The Cheshire Sheaf, Chester, page 68, column 2:
- The brutal clamour, and pandemonious hideousness then prevailing at the Cock-pit, shocked the morals, in a not very moral age, of the inquisitive, and ever active ‘Mr. Samuel Pepys’ in London nearly two hundred years before.