CIMMERIAN, adjective Pertaining to Cimmerium, a town at the mouth of the Palus Maeotis. The ancients pretended that this country was involved in darkness; whence the phrase cimmerian darkness, to denote a deep or continual obscurity. The country is now called Crimea, or Krim-Tartary.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.