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单词 diablerie
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diablerien.

Brit. /dɪˈɑːbləri/, /dɪˈabləri/, U.S. /diˈɑbləri/, /diˈæbləri/
Forms: 1600s– diablerie, 1700s diablérie, 1700s–1800s diablery.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French diablerie.
Etymology: < French diablerie diabolical act or thing (early 13th cent. or earlier in Old French as deblerye ), sorcery, witchcraft (1230), work of art or literature that has devils as its subject (1534 in Rabelais) < diable devil (see devil n.) + -erie -ery suffix. Compare earlier devilry n.
1.
a. An infernal or diabolical act or thing. Frequently hyperbolical. Now rare.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > diabolicalness > [noun]
devilrya1400
devility1588
devilship1644
devilism1647
diabolicalness1652
diablerie1653
diabolism1660
deviltry1772
demonry1805
diabolicity1861
demonishnessa1930
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > devilish wickedness
devilrya1400
devility1588
devilship1644
devilism1647
diabolicalness1652
diablerie1653
diabolism1660
deviltry1772
demonry1805
diabolicity1861
infernalism1864
demonishnessa1930
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. x. 73 These records, bills of inquest, replies, rejoinders, exceptions, depositions, and other such diableries of truth-intangling Writs.
1765 J. Langhorne Corr. Theodosius & Constantia (new ed.) vii. 64 The diableries of infernal spirits are destroyed by the influence of a celestial.
1859 W. Mathews Two Homes III. xlv. 73 Fortune, bah! I have a repugnance to the term—a diablerie belonging to the ventriloquism of humbug.
1867 Temple Bar Dec. 70 There are few dresses so thoroughly successful for a true athlete as ‘flannels’. We omit to speak of the diableries of the Zingari and other Bohemians of the ‘composite orders’ of cricketers.
1906 J. B. Huber Consumption xv. iv. 456 The cruelties of its powerful men, the diableries of its nobility, its bloody and occasionless wars.
1938 Austral. Q. Mar. 93 The ready sentimentality of the mob that sniffles with sympathy at the bathos of Little Willie's death-bed, can be swayed at almost a moment's notice to bloody diableries.
b. Dealings with the Devil or devils; sorcery, witchcraft.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > involving demons or black magic
devilshineOE
artemagea1393
art magica1393
devilry1487
goety1569
black art1572
black magic1590
diabolism1614
demonomancy1652
goetic1727
diablerie1751
demonomagy1765
demonurgy1797
1751 W. Warburton in Wks. of Alexander Pope IV. 241 His Imitator is only for removing the false terrors from the world of spirits, such as the diablerie of witchcraft and purgatory.
1809 Q. Rev. May 347 We are no defenders of ghost seeing and diablerie.
1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy i. 55 Diablerie That pales the girls and puzzles all the boys.
1906 J. Bennett Treasure of Peyre Gaillard xiii. 97 Don't, I conjure you, dabble with magic and conjuring; it is not sixty years since men were hanged for just such diablerie as this!
1970 B. Walker Sex & Supernatural 107 The sin of witchcraft lay therefore not in nude dancing, drunkenness or fornication, but in diablerie.
2009 C. Kessel Words & Music T. Waits iii. 98 Wilhelm..is drawn down the path of diablerie and corruption by a train that has the devil as its conductor.
c. Rakish or mischievous character or behaviour; wild recklessness; a mischievous or reckless act. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > courage > daring > reckless daring > [noun]
hardydardya1529
audaciousness1598
diablerie1751
devilry1841
devilment1843
daredevilry1859
daredeviltry1881
daredevilism1886
1751 W. Warburton Let. 18 Nov. in Lett. Late Eminent Prelate (?1793) xxxvi. 67 What would this noble Lord say of his enemies, when he draws so charming a picture of diablérie, from his friend?
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xx. 47 Miss Eva..appeared to be fascinated by her wild diablerie, as a dove is sometimes charmed by a glittering serpent.
1857 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Feb. 196/2 John Parker's wife..was safe in prison..and John had no mind she should get out again to plague him with any more of her diableries.
1896 C. D. Warner in C. D. Warner et al. Libr. World's Best Lit. VII. 2938 The world was speedily full of romances of his [sc. Byron's] recklessness, his intrigues, his diablerie, and his munificence.
1921 E. M. Hull Sheik ix. 250 In spite of his temper and his diableries he was very lovable and everybody liked him.
1963 P. G. Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves i. 17 This Alpine lid [i.e. hat]..unquestionably lent a diablerie to my appearance, and mine is an appearance that needs all the diablerie it can get.
2. A work of art or literature that has devils as its subject; a description or representation of devils; folklore or mythology concerning devils.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > demonology
demonology1597
diabolism1608
diabology1693
diablerie1726
devilry1737
diabolology1831
demonography1852
1726 tr. J. de Courbeville in tr. B. Gracián y Morales Hero vii. 77 His Caprichios, his Diablery [Fr. diablerie] of St. Anthony, as the Vulgar call it, his Antiques, his Pilgrims, his Beggars, are all Prodigies of Art which none before him ever attained.
1765 J. Langhorne in W. Collins Poet. Wks. 153 Milton was notoriously fond of high romance, and gothic diableries.
1785 S. Felton Explan. Several Hogarth's Prints 43 The heterogeneous mixture of ornaments round the clock, as well as those strange and frightful ones on the chimney-piece, are a strong satire and ridicule on the rage for such diableries.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. viii. 197 The devil, in the old stories of diablerie, was always sure to start up at the elbow of any one who nursed diabolical purposes.
1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel I. x. 76 An extraordinary figure that might have stepped out of a scene of German diablerie.
1935 Burlington Mag. Nov. 220/2 The representation of the infernal powers, the so-called ‘diablerie’,..offered a wide scope for the artist's imagination.
1967 French Rev. 41 8 As the clowning priests leap about in clouds of smoking incense to dispel bad odors, it is easy to see the inspiration of the ‘diableries’ of Bosch and Brueghel.
1994 V. Mark in J. Carlisle & D. R. Schwarz Narr. & Culture 263 The tortured bodies of accused heretics depicted in medieval diableries.
3. A company of devils; the realm of devils; devils collectively. Now rare.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun]
helleOE
hellOE
perditiona1382
perishingc1384
welling woea1400
hellwardc1400
Topheta1425
gehenne1481
to devilwardc1550
limbo1581
Averna1592
Hades1597
Sheol1599
other place1604
underworld1608
infernals1613
gehenna1623
lower world1639
netherworld1640
pandemonium1667
subterrenea1711
diablerie1776
inferno1834
ballyhooly1837
nether region1839
Sam Hill1839
Ballyhack1843
tunket1871
bogydom1880
1776 Monthly Rev. Feb. 89 The bookseller, the printer, and his whole diablerie ought to suffer condign punishment.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (U.K. ed.) xx. 205 She might have fancied that she had got hold of some sooty gnome from the land of Diablerie.
1880 W. Leighton Shakespeare's Dream 50 Out of sin's diablery We arise, the fateful three.
1981 G. Wickham Plays & Their Makers v. 85 Bale's most brilliant, innovative device was to create an equation between the pope and Anti-Christ, Roman Catholic priests and the diablerie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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