ambrosial (245) of or fit for the gods; divine.
vassal / vassalage (253) a subordinate, subject, servant, slave, etc.
Atlantean (305) of or like Atlas; strong.
abyss (405) Theol. the primeval void or chaos before the Creation.
Empyreal / Empyrean (430) the highest heaven; among Christian poets, the abode of God.
lantskip (491) landscape (a Dutch word whose form had not changed in English in Milton's time).
alchymy (516) an early form of chemistry studied in the Middle Ages, whose chief aim was to change base metals into gold and to discover the elixir of perpetual youth. Milton uses the word in this instance in its meaning of "metal."
welkin (538) the vault of heaven, the sky.
Styx, Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon (577) the four rivers of Hell.
frith (919) a narrow inlet or arm of the sea.
