Pandemoʹnium (A).
A perfect pandemonium. A bear-garden for disorder and licentiousness. In allusion to the parliament of hell in Milton’s Paradise Lost, book i. (Greek, pan daimon, every demon.) (See Cordeliers.)
A perfect pandemonium. A bear-garden for disorder and licentiousness. In allusion to the parliament of hell in Milton’s Paradise Lost, book i. (Greek, pan daimon, every demon.) (See Cordeliers.)
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.