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Adjective- Of, relating to, or like a three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades.

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  • I must likewise take notice, that there are in Milton several Words of his own coining, as Cerberean, miscreated, Hell-doom'd, Embryon Atoms, and many others.
  • "Population, if not proscribed and worried down by the Cerberean dogs of this wretched and cruel system, really does press against the level of the means of subsistence,...
  • But for those limbs Cerberean jaws are found.
  • With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
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