devil
51devil — noun 1) God and the Devil Syn: Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness; informal Old Nick 2) they drove out the devils Syn: evil spirit, demon, fiend 3) he was a devil …
52devil — A term of the printing trade of an older day for boy in the shop who ran errands and did odd jobs. It sometimes happens that a junior barrister will be given work which a brother barrister, through press of business, is unable to do. Where a… …
53devil of it — phrasal : a vexatious or mischief making feature : something to be regretted or deplored used with the the devil of it was that we could easily have come early they only did it for the devil of it …
54Devil — noun The chief devil; Satan …
55Devil — (Gr. diabolos), a slanderer, the arch enemy of man s spiritual interest (Job 1:6; Rev. 2:10; Zech. 3:1). He is called also the accuser of the brethen (Rev. 12:10). In Lev. 17:7 the word devil is the translation of the Hebrew sair, meaning a …
56Devil — Recorded in many forms including de Ville, de Villier, Darvel, Darvill, Darvell, Devil, Ville, Desvilles, and others, this is a famous French surname. It is habitational, and describes one who lived in the centre of a village, as opposed to the… …
57devil — The word diabolos is used in the LXX to translate Hebrew Satan, and ‘devil’ is an English alternative used in the NT (e.g. in the temptation narrative, Matt. 4:1) as an equivalent of ‘Satan’. The belief that Satan was once an angel [[➝ angels]]… …
58devil — [OE] English acquired devil in the 8th century via late Latin diabolus from Greek diábolos, which originally meant ‘slanderer’. It was a derivative of diabállein ‘slander’, a compound verb literally meaning ‘throw across’, formed from diá… …
59devil — I. n. 1. Satan, Luciter, Belial, Apollyon, Arch fiend, Arch enemy, the Tempter, Deuce, the Evil One, the Man of Sin, the Wicked One, the Old Serpent, the Prince of Darkness, the Foul Fiend, the Enemy, the Adversary. See apollyon. 2. Demon, evil… …
60devil — naras statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. devil vok. Taucher, m rus. поплавок, m pranc. plongeur, m …