DANTEAN

PRONUNCIATION: (DAN-tee-uhn, dan-TEE-uhn)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to Dante or his writings.
2. Having a hellish quality.

ETYMOLOGY: After Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), author of Divine Comedy (1321), an epic poem depicting hell, purgatory, and paradise. Earliest documented use: 1785.
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DANTE RAN - what the poet did after reading the inscription on the Gates of Hell and abandoning all hope

ANTEAN - a beforehander

DON'T-EAN - opposite of sycophantic

DAN TEAM - QB Marino really was the Dolphins in the late 1980s and 90s