(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:36:08

A*bys"mal (#), a.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.

Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space.
Carlyle.

 

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