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Satanical, a. Now rare.|səˈtænɪkəl|
Also 6–7 sathanicall.
[Formed as prec.: see -ical.]
†1. Resembling Satan, devilish. Obs.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 109 b, Allured and intised by a deuilishe wytche, and a Sathanicall enchaunteresse. 1553Becon Reliques of Rome (1563) 34 A Satanicall swarme of shamelesse shauelynges. 1657Fiennes Sp. Parl. 20 Jan. 12 We doubt not, but that the Prince of those Satanical Spirits..will in God's good time split himself also upon this Rock. 1711Hickes Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1847) I. 320 The Church of England, whose ruin this Satanical sect of men seek. 1759Law Lett. Import. Subj. 195 Adam's turning from God to hear the voice and instruction of his own reason and imagination, and the suggestions of a satanical serpent, was [etc.].
2. Of or pertaining to Satan: = Satanic a. 1.
1590H. Holland Treat. agst. Witchcraft (title-p.), The most certen meanes ordained of God, to discouer, expell, and to confound all the Sathanicall inuentions of Witchcraft and sorcerie. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. vii. ii. 84 Seeing these Magicians by their Satanicall craft do so strongly deceiue. 1779W. Alexander Hist. Women (1782) II. 98 Those ideas of sorceries, witchcrafts, and satanical possessions with which the minds of the people were infected. 1887B. O'Reilly Life Leo XIII 354 They felt these satanical festivities to be directed against Christ Himself.
3. Of things, actions, or qualities: = Satanic a. 2.
1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 138 b, All cursed crimes and sleights satanicall. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 2 Such be the Satanicall opinions of this hell-borne age. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. iv. 410 Self-Righteousness and Satanical Pride. 1762Kames Elem. Crit. xxi. (1833) 411 Iago's character..is insufferably monstrous and satanical. 1907A. C. Benson Altar Fire 153 A Satanical sort of pride—the pride of correct information.
Hence Saˈtanically adv., in a satanic manner; † Saˈtanicalness, the quality of being satanic.
1606Proceedings agst. Garnet S 4 b, Hall the Iesuit..in stead of..a sence of the wickednesse of the Treason, fell..Sathanically to argue for the iustification of the same. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xix. (1713) 216, I was only a going to add something of the Madness of the Heathenish Priests, as the last Note of the Satanicalness of their Religion. 1824Examiner 276/2 Satanically false. 1906H. B. Swete Apocalypse xvi. 13 note, Ψευδοπροϕητης..is used in the N.T. of..persons Satanically inspired. |