FromOgyges +‎-ian.

• IPA^(key): /əʊˈdʒɪdʒi.ən/

Ogygian (not generallycomparable,comparativemoreOgygian,superlativemostOgygian)

1. Of, pertaining to, or during the reign ofOgyges, amythicalking ofAttica
2. Relating to a greatdeluge in Attica during the rule of Ogyges
3. Of or pertaining toOgygia, an island mentioned in Homer'sOdyssey,
4. (by extension, comparative)primeval; ofobscureantiquity.

   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 theirOgygian hilarity.

• “Ogygian”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

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