Meanings
adjectiveHeliogabalian (comparative more Heliogabalian, superlative most Heliogabalian)
comparative more Heliogabalian · superlative most Heliogabalian
- Relating to Heliogabalus.
- figurativelyDissolute; decadent or morally corrupt.
If this high-class journal may be believed, His Majesty is one of the most Heliogabalian profligates that ever disgraced an autocratic throne!
1893, Arthur Sullivan; W. S. Gilbert, composer, An Original Comic Opera, in Two Acts, Entitled Utopia (Limited); or, The Flowers of Progress, act I, page 5
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