Definition: adj weird, eerie

Quotation: “Now as England was a country of fixed ways, they imprisoned him in the same chamber where they had put Oldenburg twenty years before.
“But some things were changed even in England; James II was peevish and fitful where his older brother had been merry, and so Daniel was kept closer than Oldenburg had been, and allowed to leave the chamber to stroll upon the walls only rarely. He spent all his time in that round room, encircled by the eldritch glyphs that had been scratched into the stone by condemned alchemists and sorcerers of yore, and pathetic Latin plaints graven by Papists under Elizabeth.”

How many times have you said “That’s odd/weird/strange” in everyday conversations lately? Now imagine if you could fit in a “That’s eldritch”…it’s a guaranteed icebreaker (for good or bad).