acherontic

So it’s certainly correct to call Mr. Scarlett’s work “Acherontic,” a word whose dictionary meanings include “infernal, gloomy, waiting to cross Acheron, moribund.”

The artist had evidently a picture of Charon and his Acherontic boat in his mind, which was thus reproduced in his feverish dreams.

Just then Dame Caterina came in with Father Bonifazio, bringing a draught which he had skilfully compounded, and which the sick man took, and relished better than the Acherontic liquids of the Pyramid Doctor, Splendiano Accoramboni.

Of his adroitness with the latter, he quickly gave us a specimen; for, while one of my friends was218 peering into the entrance of this Acherontic cave, he very cunningly appropriated his torch; and it was not until the matter became serious, that he could be induced to restore it.

I wondered how of late our Acherontic shore Grew thin, and hell unpeopled of her store; Charon, for want of use, forgot his oar.