Now rare. [L. vorāgo, f. vorāre to devour. Cf. VORAGE.] An abyss, gulf or chasm.
1654. Howell, Parthenop., To Rdr. A ij b. The great Vorago or fiery Gulph … which rageth in the head of that Mountain [Vesuvius].
1656. S. H., Gold. Law, 91. Earthquakes, Chasmaes, and Voragoes were at his command.
1669. Phil. Trans., IV. 1028. The top of Ætna must about the same time have sunk down into its old Vorago or hole.
fig. 1836. Landor, Imag. Conv., Wks. 1876, VI. 450. Adultery and concubinage did you mention! Another vorago, two voragoes, Scylla and Charybdis, of national wealth.
1895. J. J. Raven, Hist. Suffolk, 151. Five years more, and Blythburgh Priory perishes in the general vorago.
