cimmerian

adjective2

1. •
   (formal, literary) Perpetually dark or gloomy.

   • There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. — 1631
2. •
   (formal, figurative) Mentally dark; ignorant; benighted.

   • The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne. — 1770

noun3

1. •
   One of the Cimmerii, ancient equestrian nomads of Indo-European origin.

   • Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian Doth make your honour of his body's hue, Spotted, detested, and abominable. — 1588
2. •
   Any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness.

   • The city, there, of the Cimmerians stands With clouds and darkness veil’d, on whom the sun Deigns not to look with his beam-darting eye, — 1791
3. •
   (historical) The prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy.

   • Varro relates that there were ten Sibyls,—the first of the Persians, the second the Libyan, the third the Delphian, the fourth the Cimmerian... — 1867

adjective3

1. •
   Pertaining to the ancient Cimmerians.
2. •
   Characteristic of Cimmeria, especially in having particularly dense darkness etc.

   • there it sleepeth, here it slumbreth: more or lesse they are ever darknesses, yea Cimmerian darknesses. — 1603
3. •
   Related to the prehistoric continent of Cimmeria.