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Charybdiancharybdian is often a misspelling of charybdis.


Charybdiancharybdian has no English definition.

As a proper noun Charybdis

is a dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast.

charybdis

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast.
  • (Greek mythology) A personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster.
  • A general term for any dangerous whirlpool
  • * 1638 : Herbert, Sir Thomas, ''Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
    • ...that night, wee ?ailed merrily by the Ma?carenas , a Charybdis in 21 degrees, var.13 and 17 minutes...
  • * 1832 Bell, James A system of geography, popular and scientific
    • The tide here sets in alternately from N. to S. and from S. to N., which causes the whirlpool of Galofaro, the Charybdis of the ancients.
  • * 1842 Schiller, Friedrich poem Der Taucher (written in 1797) published in English in Blackwood's Magazine volume 52
    • Lo! the wave that for ever devours the wave/Casts roaringly up the charybdis again...

    Derived terms

    * Charybdian

    See also

    (pedia) * Scylla

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    Not English

    Charybdiancharybdian has no English definition. It may be misspelled.