"The Death of Malygris" by Clark Ashton Smith

Lots of weird names with no obvious pronunciations. Gadeiron, Maranapion, Tartessos, Fustules, even Susran has quite a few options. Well, with no pronunciation hints from the author, I just had to pick something and try my best to be consistent. Ugh.

Outside of the names, there are a couple of the more obscure words I can tell my pronunciation is off slightly, but not enough that I would be bothered to go back and fix it, like 'invultuation'. Meh. The hazards of an author trying to be as sophisticated as possible in their vocabulary :-P

lading: cargo

gravid: full of meaning or a specified quality

bruited: in this context: rumored. Although I'm not sure I used the right pronunciation... It's such a weird and archaic word.

catalepsy: a medical condition characterized by a trance or seizure with a loss of sensation and consciousness accompanied by rigidity of the body

gnomon: an object that by the position or length of its shadow serves as an indicator especially of the hour of the day, such as the pin of a sundial, or a column or shaft erected perpendicular to the horizon

effulgence: brilliance

caryatid: a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building.

balsam: an aromatic resinous substance, such as balm, exuded by various trees and shrubs and used as a base for certain fragrances and medical and cosmetic preparations

marmorean: of, relating to, or suggestive of marble or a marble statue especially in coldness or aloofness

samite: a rich silk fabric interwoven with gold and silver threads, used for dressmaking and decoration in the Middle Ages

chryselephantine: overlaid with gold and ivory

brazen: in this context, made of brass

irrefragable: impossible to break or alter. I found multiple recordings of this word with different pronunciations, all reliable sources. One of them matched what I used here. If you expect something different, well, I don't know what to tell you other than there appear to be multiple valid pronunciations.

balas ruby: a ruby spinel of a pale rose-red or orange

invultuation: the use of or the act of making images of people, animals, etc, for witchcraft

senescence: the condition or process of deterioration with age

lustrum: a period of five years

appanage: it is difficult to understand what definition Smith intends with this word in this context. I guess "adjunct"? It's an extremely obscure word here in the 21st century, certainly in the USA, and typically has to do with land grants in a monarchy, or some such. Bizarre choice of word.

maranatha: an intensified curse or malediction

aureate: donating, made of, or having the color of gold

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