a. Improp. -ian. [L. Cerbere-us, f. CERBERUS.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling Cerberus. So Cerberic.
1619. Purchas, Microcosmus, liii. 511. Giue Reason some Cerberean Morsell to muzzle him.
1628. M. Laymon, Syon’s Plea, 24. Such Cerberean Porters; as shut the gates upon Christs Friends, and intertain his foes.
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 655. A cry of Hell Hounds never ceasing bark’d With wide Cerberean mouths.
1731. Swift, Cassius & P. But hark, The loud Cerberian triple bark.
1787. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary (1842), III. 410. By no means so much disconcerted as by a similar Cerberic detection.
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., x. (1870), 90. Cerberean whelps of feud and slander.
