Definitions for Orcus

Orcus Or·cus

Spelling: [awr-kuh s]
IPA: /ˈɔr kəs/

Orcus is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in Orcus (corsu).

Definitions for Orcus

noun

  1. the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
  2. the ancient Roman underworld; Hades; Dis.

Examples for Orcus

Has gone blundering down into Orcus and the shark's belly, in that unutterable manner.

Some masked valets, dressed like Pluto or Orcus, dragged away the dead by the feet, killing with hammers all who still breathed.

And I was beautiful, and I had no love, save for the king, Orcus.

The airy nothing of a sigh bears often a pastoral world or an Orcus on its ephemeron's-wing.

Down with it, man: down with it to Orcus: let the whole accursed edifice sink thither, and tyranny be swallowed up for ever!

Death sits calmly dread upon thy brow—on thy lip is the smile that slays: thy name is Orcus, but on earth men call thee Arbaces.

My soul would express, in sadness and in gloom, its forecast of the dreary Orcus.

No fabled Elysium—no poetic Orcus—but a pure and radiant heritage of heaven itself, is the portion of the good.'

By the moon, who is the guardian of the sorceress—by Orcus, who is the treasurer of wrath—I curse thee!

The fires of the avenging Orcus burst forth against the false witness of my accusers!'

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