Meaning of pandemonic | Babel Free
Definitions
Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
Examples
“[…]for on no other principle can I account for the prolongation of the day of feasting at the Crown and Anchor, until the 31st day of July, unless it is to allow⟳ themselves one little month to boast f respectability, &c. &c. &c., before the Satirist can present⟳ to the public a true account of the pandemonic scene.”
“Sheets, tablecloths, white gowns, and pocket-handkerchiefs were instantly in demand⟳, and every one, as has been seen, entered, con amore, into the extempore entertainment of Pandemonic Revels.”
“Yea! for such sights and acts do tear⟳ apart / The close⟳ and subtle clasping of a chain, / Form’d not of gold, but of corroded brass, / Whose links are furnish’d from the common mine / Of every day’s event, and want⟳, and wish⟳; / From work-times, diet-times, and sleeping-times: / And thence constructed, mean⟳ and heavy links / Within the pandemonic walls of sense⟳, / Enchain our deathless part, constrain our strength, / And waste⟳ the goodly stature of our soul.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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