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Definition of Hadean
1. Noun. The earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life.
Generic synonyms: Aeon, Eon
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
Definition of Hadean
1. Adjective. (geology) Of, or relating to the geologic eon from about 4,600 to 3,800 million years ago; marked by the formation of the solar system, a stable Earth-Moon orbit and the first rocks. ¹
2. Noun. (geology) The Hadean eon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hadean
Literary usage of Hadean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1882)
"Then there must be another hadean province, a place of torment and punishment,
the place elsewhere named " Gehenna," because Gehenna was the public place of ..."
2. Is Hell Eternal: Or, Will God's Plan Fail? by Charles Hamilton Pridgeon (1920)
"This spiritual body goes with them into the hadean state, no matter how warped
and dwarfed it may become. Each one that passes out of this life reaches the ..."
3. The Moriad: Or, End of the Jewish State by Ben Asaph, Anselm Korlstoff (1857)
"... meteors fill the sky, And heaven to earth proclaim, the hour is nigh ; For
this end, let the hadean spirits come, And demons stir the heathen powers of ..."
4. The destiny of the wicked by A. M. Wilson (1878)
"raven, and the flame ; or, when vised in a figura- rative sense, the sentence to
the darker region of the hadean world" (pp. 86,87). ..."
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