Ogygian

English edit

Ogygian (not generally comparable, comparative more Ogygian, superlative most Ogygian)

Of, pertaining to, or during the reign of Ogyges, a mythical king of Attica
Relating to a great deluge in Attica during the rule of Ogyges
Of or pertaining to Ogygia, an island mentioned in Homer's Odyssey,
(by extension, comparative) primeval; of obscure antiquity.
Synonym: age-old
- 1885, George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways, Chapter 1:
  Brainstuff is not lean stuff;—the brainstuff of fiction is internal history, and to suppose it dull is the profoundest of errors; how deep, you will understand when I tell you that it is the very football of the holiday-afternoon imps below. They kick it for pastime; they are intelligences perverted. The comic of it, the adventurous, the tragic, they make devilish, to kindle their Ogygian hilarity.