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Mezentian (iou)



Mezentian adjective. M19.
[from Mezentius (see below) + -AN.]
Of an action etc.: cruelly binding, comparable to that of Mezentius, a mythical Etruscan king who had living people bound to corpses and left to starve.
Sydney Smith That fatal and Mezentian oath which binds the Irish to the English Church.