Infernal; pertaining to Styx, the fabled river of hell.
“At that so sudden blaze the Stygian throng
Bent their aspect.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, x. 453.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.