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lOE Homily: De Inclusis (Corpus Cambr. 303) in D. G. Scragg Vercelli Homilies & Related Texts (1992) 174 Sum deofelgast sæde sumen ancre eall helle geryn & hire tintrege.

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1451 Þe deuel dragouns hide Was hard so ani flint.

1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 165 O diuel woman, that will doe more for golde then goodwill?

1582 F. H. tr. P. Viret Epist. to Faithfull sig. f.5 They haue serued the diuell goddes that they haue forged of their owne braine.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iv. xvi. 176 Such a rable of diuell-gods.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. i. 22 That Diuell Monke, Hopkins. View more context for this quotation

1629 J. Shirley Wedding iii. i Thy devil jailor May trust thee without a waiter.

1639 J. Shirley Maides Revenge v. sig. I3^v My eldest divell sister.

1720 A. Petrie Rules Good Deportm. for Use of Youth 108 Which Remedy was prescribed by his own Devil Gods.

1777 W. Aldridge Doctr. Trinity 17 The gods of the Heathen were false gods; dunghill gods, or devil gods.

1892 B. F. C. Costelloe Church Catholic 13 A Devil-giant coercing hapless lives.

1920 E. Anderson A'Chu & Other Stories 257 Most certainly, I am afraid of devil-spirits. I would not sleep here for riches.

1943 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 28 78 Offering sacrificial appeasement to the devil-god Mandinga.

1996 Time Out N.Y. 14 Feb. 45/4 Why do the characters in Jumanji persist in playing an ancient board game that brings giant mosquitoes and devil-monkeys billowing out of thin air!