helliten.

1794 A. Watson Anti-Jacobin x. 65 Level th' despots and satellites, Heav'n's, earth's, sea's, air's, to state of hellites.

1826 T. Roscoe German Novelists I. 305 All we Hellites, or damned spirits, being once separated from grace, must remain in a state of reprobation to all eternity.

1866 D. Forbes Hindūstānī Dict. 45 at 'a῾rāf The poet Sa'dī says that ‘to those in heaven A'rāf would seem hell, but the hellites would call A'rāf paradise’.

1996 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 27 Jan. There'll the rest of us be, the hellites, downstairs, trying to read, but unable to concentrate because they won't turn down the bloody music.

1824 Times 9 Oct. in Westm. Rev. (1829) 11 319 The hellites at all the ‘hells’..resort to every species of cheating.

1838 J. Grant Sketches London 355 In all the gaming-houses of any note, there are unprincipled reckless persons in the pay of the hellites.

1870 A. Steinmetz Gaming Table II. iv. 93 ‘What security will you give me?’ asked the fellow. ‘My word of honour,’ was the reply. ‘That's poor security, and won't do,’ rejoined the hellite.

1907 T. W. Lawson Friday Thirteenth ix. 217 With a mighty rush the gamblers leaped for the different poles... It required no supernatural wisdom for any man on the floor [of the stock exchange] to see that Bob Brownley's seed had fallen in superheated soil, that his until now secret hellite was about to be tested.