rare. [f. L. TARTAR-US + -IZE. (Representing Gr. ταρταροῦν, 2 Pet. ii. 4.)] trans. To consign to Tartarus; to condemn to punishment in hell. Hence Tartarization3.
1675. R. Burthogge, Causa Dei, 32. So … doth Peter speak, when … he saith God did Tartarize the Angels in Chains of Darkness, or put them in Chains of Darkness in Tartarus.
1819. G. S. Faber, Dispensations (1823), I. I. vii. 422. We may collect that the precipitation of the messengers into Tartarus bore a strong resemblance to the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah … though the very agent employed in their tartarization might be used also as an instrument in God’s hand of bringing on the deluge.
