devil

[Dev·il]

(Judeo Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell

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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

Noun
a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say"

Noun
one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief

Noun
(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell

Noun
a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man); "he chased the young hellions out of his yard"

Noun
a cruel wicked and inhuman person

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Verb
coat or stuff with a spicy paste; "devilled eggs"

Verb
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

n.
The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

n.
An evil spirit; a demon.

n.
A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.

n.
An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.

n.
A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.

n.
A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.

v. t.
To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.

v. t.
To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.

Devil

Dev"il , n. [AS. de'a2fol, de'a2ful; akin to G. eufel, Goth. diaba'a3lus; all fr. L. diabolus the devil, Gr. the devil, the slanderer, fr. to slander, calumniate, orig., to throw across; across + to throw, let fall, fall; cf. Skr. gal to fall. Cf. Diabolic.] 1. The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

[Jesus] being forty days tempted of the devil.

That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.

2. An evil spirit; a demon.

A dumb man possessed with a devil.

3. A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. "That devil Glendower." "The devil drunkenness." Shak.

Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

4. An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation. [Low]

The devil a puritan that he is, . . . but a timepleaser.

The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

5. (Cookery) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.

Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron.

6. (Manuf.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. Blue devils. See under Blue. -- Cartesian devil. See under Cartesian. -- Devil bird (Zo'94l.), one of two or more South African drongo shrikes (Edolius retifer, and E. remifer), believed by the natives to be connected with sorcery. -- Devil may care, reckless, defiant of authority; -- used adjectively. Longfellow. -- Devil's apron (Bot.), the large kelp (Laminaria saccharina, and L. longicruris) of the Atlantic ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. -- Devil's coachhorse. (Zo'94l.) (a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus olens). [Eng.] (b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect (Prionotus cristatus); the wheel bug. [U.S.] -- Devil's darning-needle. (Zo'94l.) See under Darn, v. t. -- Devil's fingers, Devil's hand (Zo'94l.), the common British starfish (Asterias rubens); -- also applied to a sponge with stout branches. [Prov. Eng., Irish & Scot.] -- Devil's riding-horse (Zo'94l.), the American mantis (Mantis Carolina). -- The Devil's tattoo, a drumming with the fingers or feet. "Jack played the Devil's tattoo on the door with his boot heels." F. Hardman (Blackw. Mag.). -- Devil worship, worship of the power of evil; -- still practiced by barbarians who believe that the good and evil forces of nature are of equal power. -- Printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing the ink rollers and sweeping), etc. "Without fearing the printer's devil or the sheriff's officer." Macaulay. -- Tasmanian devil (Zo'94l.), a very savage carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania (Dasyurus, ∨ Diabolus, ursinus). -- To play devil with, to molest extremely; to ruin. [Low]

Devil

Dev"il , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deviled or Devilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Deviling or Devilling.] 1. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. 2. To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.

A deviled leg of turkey.

Devil-diver, Devil bird

Dev"il-div`er , Dev"il bird` , n.. (Zo'94l.) A small water bird. See Dabchick.

The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.

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Usage Examples

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!