Cytherian

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A form of Cytherean — Of, from or relating to Cythera, an island now part of Greece, at which the goddess Aphrodite came ashore on a seashell according to Greek mythology. Thus, referring to the goddesses Aphrodite or Venus.

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Meanings

adjectiveCytherian (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of Cytherean.

    Beauties there are ſcant, // For they do Gallants never want, // To lay their longing Appetites, // Who, wounded in Cytherian Fights, // Do leave off their delicious ſport, // And to Repentance moſt reſort.

    1702, “The First Viſion of the Algouazil (or Catchpole) Poſſest”, in Sir Roger L’Estrange, transl., The Viſions of Dom Franciſco de Quevedo-Villegas, 21
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