(a.) Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.
(a.) Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct.
(n.) An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the book, Trierweiler describes infidelity as “an infernal cycle”.
(2) It would be easy to imagine that in the years since Wood finally hurled that infernal ring into Mount Doom, he has still been burdened by it, dragging himself around an indifferent movie industry where nobody can see him as anything other than the hairy-footed little hero of a colossally successful movie trilogy.
(3) Whether ostensibly conservative, like the Gothic architect Augustus Welsby Pugin, or Marxist, like William Morris, opinion formers in the second half of the 19th century agreed that industry had deformed the UK, that its cities and its architecture were horrifying, that its factories were infernal, and that it should be replaced with a return to older, preferably medieval, certainties.
(4) Out of the stadium's sluices flowed hordes of the new classes created by the industrial revolution: workers in overalls, bosses in top hats, arriving to dismantle the rural scene piece by piece, the meadows and the tilled fields making way for an array of vast chimneys emerging from the once fertile earth to reach the height of the stadium rim, their infernal belching smoke replacing the homely cottage hearth and ushering in a world of steam engines and spinning jennys.
(5) Do you give in and buy one of those infernal plastic water bottles?
(6) There may come a point – quite soon, frankly – when you wonder why you're on this infernal treadmill.
(7) Tony Blair 's fans on the right will be disappointed that all he can say about the infernal Sixties is that they were 'a decade of personal liberation' and will be affronted that he attributes to Mrs Thatcher carrying Sixties' individualism into the economic sphere.
(8) Visceral video footage that he shot on the day of his own death shows an infernal world of flaming tyres and random firing of automatic weapons.
(9) By this point I hadn't slept for three days, had had quite enough of doing a sea lion impression balancing on that infernal ball, and caved in.
(10) If fans had an interest in the game they would not be blowing that infernal machine every infernal minute.
(11) After compiling an extraordinarily brave double century against India in the tied Test at Chennai in 1985, Australian batsman Dean Jones described what it was like to bat in infernal conditions: “When you’re urinating in your pants and vomiting 15 times, you’ve got massive problems.” When finally dismissed for 210, Jones was taken to hospital on a saline drip.
(12) Those who survived that infernal night of interminable gunfire when they yelled: “Don’t shoot, we’re students.
(13) Again, these are the occasions when I do not invite interaction with my fellow humans, and I must say that in all the years I’ve been wandering these woods, I have never seen anyone else (if you except winter, deep snow, and the blur and roar of the infernal snowmobiles).
(14) The Call's screenplay is by Richard D'Ovidio and feels very much like a fourth instalment in Larry Cohen's "phone trilogy", three infernally propulsive high-concept thrillers based around phones and confinement: Phone Booth, Cellular and Messages Deleted.
(15) Vilified by Seleção legends and sections of the media, he stuck to a 4-4-2 plan in which a clogged midfield, anchored by Dunga and Mauro Silva, exploited the pace and skills of an attacking partnership formed by the slick Bebeto and the infernal Romario.
(16) He recommends throughout All That Is Solid Melts Into Air that the Faust legend is read dialectically, as a story about the need to have recourse to the "dark side", to the infernal arts of industrialisation and technology.
(17) Eventually by greater strength of muscle or by some infernal juggle, the difficulty appears to be overcome, and the shoulders and trunk of a goodly child are delivered.
(18) purulence, was regarded as normal and pus was called "Pus bonum and laudabile", which was thought to be the supposition for wound-healing and was the reason for the infernal stench which one could smell.
(19) Is it just me who is imagining an infernal alliance of Polish plumbers tooled up with spanners and Wahhabist militants waving ancestral scimitars as they secure the cheese counter at the local Morrison’s with their war traditional cry “Aiee!
(20) In a surprisingly candid moment, he complains to a friend of life's "infernal" monotony.
Supernal
Definition:
(a.) Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions.
(a.) Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly; as, supernal grace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Concentrated supernates of cultures of 98 strains of Staphylococcus aureus were screened for the production of epidermolytic toxin by (1) biological tests in 3-day-old mice, (2) double-diffusion precipitation tests against specific antiserum, and (3) the appearance of characteristic protein bands on thin-layer-gel isoelectric focusing.
(2) Most of the magnesium was found to be associated with the rough microsomes (probably bound to the ribosomes) and with the postmicrosomal supernate.
(3) The epithelial cells were homogenized, the supernate was assayed for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), an androgen-dependent protein, and the pellet was assayed for DHT and DNA.
(4) Northern blot analysis and bioassay revealed that the kinetics of TNF mRNA synthesis corresponded to the appearance of the protein while its disappearance corresponded to the appearance of TNF in the supernate.
(5) A slow-moving dopa-reactive band (Ts) is found in electropherograms of the nontrypsinized 100,000g supernants of detergent-treated 35,000g supernatants.
(6) The in vitro immune response of murine spleen cells to the T cell-independent antigen, 2,4-dinitrophenyl-beta-alanyl-glycyl-glycyl-N(2-aminoethyl)carbamyl-methylated Ficoll (DAGG-Ficoll), requires the presence of macrophages, or 24-hr culture supernates from peritoneal cells.
(7) These results indicate that visually clear supernates may show optical turbidity; the turbidity is likely due to triglyceride-rich particles, which contain cholesterol; the fall in cholesterol with ultrafiltration is due to removal of these floating particles and some adsorbance of HDL particles to the filters.
(8) Pretreatment of PMN with P. gingivalis supernate inhibited both the rate and the degree of agglutination induced by the secretagogues PMA and FMLP.
(9) The obtained results call attention to the importance of final concentration of Mn2+ ions at HDL2 precipitation with DS from heparin-Mn2+ supernate containing HDL.
(10) The pH optimum, Km, activation, and inhibition characteristics of the enzyme assayed for in 900 X g supernates of whole limb homogenates indicated that the activity represented a fetal bone alkaline phosphatase.
(11) Each calf in Groups A and B was given ground-up-tick supernate prepared from Theileria annulata-infected or non-infected Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum (GUTS) equivalent to 5 ticks (50 infected acini).
(12) Molecular sieving by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) of the serum-free radiolabeled supernates indicated that SH-LyP eluted at a position corresponding to a polypeptide of mol.
(13) The supernates following centrifugation of cell debris spontaneously formed CLC.
(14) The APVs, purified from culture-supernates, emerged after a long period of unsuccessful research on the split-cell pertussis vaccines, i.e.
(15) P388D1 macrophage cultured in the presence of 35S-methionine secreted into culture supernates a labelled peptide which could be recognized by MASP-1.
(16) No activity is detected when IgG is added to a supernate of antigen-fed macrophages in the absence of T cells.
(17) Results in immunoelectrophoretic analysis indicated at least 22 antigens were in the ultracentrifugal supernate (144,700 times g) of B suis and 31 antigens were in a similar supernate of B canis.
(18) After cultures were established, medium was replaced by medium containing antimicrobials and supernate organisms counted at specified times.
(19) After brief centrifugation, the supernate is discarded and the precipitate containing the bound fraction is dissolved and its fluorescence measured.
(20) In brief, ouabain-sensitive 86Rb uptake and membrane potential in blood vessels from normal animals are measured after incubation in plasma supernate from experimental subjects and animals and their respective controls.