单词 | satanical |
释义 | satanicaladj. 1. Frequently with capital initial. Of or relating to Satan; that is the Devil or a devil; = satanic adj. 1a. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [adjective] venomous1340 satanical1534 serpentinec1540 satanic1544 cloven-footed1622 Satanite1769 1534 G. Joye Subuersion Moris False Found. f. iijv O Satanical synagoge whiche cannest not be mayntayned & supported but by tyrannye, persecucion, [etc.]. 1543 G. Joye Unite & Scisme Olde Chirche f. xiv Whose apparent grete long puft vp tayls, that is to say their fayned lying long blown vp autorite, ar knit togither of their sathanicall Sampson. 1590 H. Holland Treat. against Witchcraft (title page) The most certen meanes ordained of God, to discouer, expell, and to confound all the Sathanicall inuentions of Witchcraft and sorcerie. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum vii. ii. 84 Seeing these Magicians by their Satanicall craft do so strongly deceiue. 1658 T. Bromhall Hist. Apparitions 113 That he might more easily accommodate his desire, he set his study upon the Satanical Art of Magick. 1782 W. Alexander Hist. Women (ed. 3) II. xix. 98 Those ideas of sorceries, witchcrafts, and satanical possessions, with which the minds of the people were infected. 1857 P. Cummings Dict. Congregational Usages & Princ. 176 His own conscience..[has] more to do with his terrors than any satanical influence. 1887 B. O'Reilly Life Leo XIII 354 They felt these satanical festivities to be directed against Christ Himself. 1896 Jewish Q. Rev. 8 591 True satanical beings arrayed as an army for the destruction of men's bodies and souls. 1925 W. S. Sadler Essent. Healthful Living iii. 22 The then-prevailing and exclusive belief in satanical possession as a cause of human affliction. 2002 N. Argenti in A. De Waal & N. Argenti Young Afr. vi. 141 By emphasising the Satanical powers of traditional spirits, Pentecostals incorporate these spirits into their cosmology under a new guise. 2. Characteristic of or resembling the Devil; devilish; = satanic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective] > devilishly wicked devillyOE fiendenc1315 serpentinec1422 devilish?a1439 diabolic?1483 diabolical1546 satanical1548 satanic1556 serpent-likea1586 fiendlikea1616 serpentive1635 devilized1641 demoniacal1714 demoniac1784 diabolish1865 the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [adjective] > resembling or diabolic devilish?1473 diabolicc1475 devil-like1488 diabolical1502 satanical1548 devilified1647 satanic1791 Beelzebubian1867 the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [adjective] > characteristic of satanical1548 satanic1556 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cixv Allured and intised by a deuilishe wytche, and a sathanicall enchaunterese. 1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) viii. vi. f. 191v All cursed crimes and sleights sathanicall. 1600 J. Golburne tr. C. de Valera Two Treat. i. 151 Clement himselfe, that Sathanicall father was taken prisoner in his owne castle S. Angelo. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 2 Such be the Satanicall opinions of this hell-borne age. 1711 G. Hickes Two Treat. (ed. 3) I. Pref. Disc. p. cclvi The Church of England, whose ruin this Satanical Sect of Men seek. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. iv. 410 Self-Righteousness and Satanical Pride. 1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. III. xxi. 215 Iago's character..is so monstrous and satanical, as not to be sufferable. 1843 Morning Post 12 July 2/2 A Brazilian, short, dark-coloured, with a satanical face, of whom she immediately became enamoured. 1893 Boston Daily Advertiser 12 Oct. 5/2 Ormond's Matthew Culver was as pleasing and at the same time as satanical a villain as has been seen in a long time. 1907 A. C. Benson Altar Fire 153 A Satanical sort of pride—the pride of correct information. 1965 Guardian 26 July 7/2 He endeavoured to bring to life heroes belonging to all walks of life—the satanical Byron, the morbid Shelley, [etc.]. 2017 Inside Vandy (Vanderbilt University) (Nexis) 23 Jan. 1 Mr. Applegate commanded the stage with his theatricality and his signature Satanical laugh. Derivatives saˈtanicalness n. somewhat rare the quality of being satanic. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > quality of being Satanism1565 dragonism1581 indivinity1646 satanicalness1668 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues iii. xix. 2421 I was onely a-going to adde something of the Madness of the Heathenish Priests, as the last Note of the Satanicalness of their Religion. 1933 Hispanic Rev. 3 232 The mothers who reveal, to a varying extent, a ‘natural’ satanicalness, perversion of instinct, or utter lack of scruples in committing violence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1534 |
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