单词 | devil-master |
释义 | > as lemmasdevil-master a. General attributive, as devil-hive, devil-master, devil-work, etc. ΚΠ OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) iv. 96 Næs he gytsere ne strudere ne ofermod ne niðig ne leasfyrhð, ne deofulcræftas ne lufode he. lOE tr. Alcuin De Virtutibus et Vitiis (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 105 Þiss deofolcynn ne mæig man ut aweorpen ne oferswiðen bute mid fæsten & mid gebeden. 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xxiii. 150 Our Dæmonopoiïa or Devill-fiction is Tragico-Comœdia, a mixture of both as Amphitryo in Plautus is. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. ii. 52 Any Sorcery or Devil-work. 1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus 321 Fear of the more skilful devil-master. a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 400/1 They struggled till fire issued from eyes, nostrils, and mouth of the poor devil-hive. 1985 New West Indian Guide 59 114 Frightened and threatened by cult practices, Europeans nevertheless permitted ‘devil practices’ to take place. 2009 Southern Literary Jrnl. 42 112 Their ‘churchgoing’ implies that Clarence's sixth sense resembles devil work or the supernatural. < as lemmas |
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