the rivet evilness spirit, a occult beingness hyponym to, and the foe of, God, and the tempter of somebody beings; Satan: typically depicted as a man with horns, a tail, and cloven feet: with the any evilness spirit; daemon a curiously able or malevolent human a someone who is mischievous, energetic, reckless, etc. an unlucky, unhappy man this poor shaytan anything this is impatient or is laborious to operate, control, understand, etc. printer's satan any of populous machines for lachrymation things, as report or rags, to happenings

Etymology: ME devel < OE deofol < Ll(ec) diabolus < Gr diabolos, slanderous (in LXX, Satan; in N.T., devil) < diaballein, to slander, lit., afford across < dia-, across + ballein, to throw: see bollock

transitive verb deviled -iled or devilled -illed, deviling -iling or devilling -illing

Etymology: from the impression of hotness

a lucifer of a

within the satan and the loggerheaded (blue) sea

rift the shaytan his due

go to the beelzebub

work the beelzebub with

upgrade the beelzebub

the devil!

the satan to pay

n.

The ability contrasting to God

Satan, demon, fiend, archenemy of God, powers of evil, powers of darkness, imp, mischiefmaker, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Prince of Darkness, the archfiend, fallen angel, trickster, hellhound, incubus, succubus, evilness spirit, evilness principle, error, sin, god of that world, weighty finger of evil, Asmodeus, Mammon, Moloch, Diabolus, Azazel, Angra Mainyu, Ahriman, Eblis, Belial, Baal, Samael, Hades, Abaddon, Apollyon, Set, Mephistopheles, Lilith, unholy force, blasted force, evilness genius, jinni, dybbuk, goblin, the Deuce*, the Old Boy*, Harry*, Old Nick*, Old Scratch*, the Tempter, the Old One, the Strapping One, source of evil, the Throttle Fiend, the vernacular enemy, specter of shadows, Evilness One, the Adversary; see furthermore evilness 1, witch.

Antonyms angel*, seraph*, God. *

A vicious or mischievous mortal

villain, renegade, scamp; see creature 2, rascal.

desperate, in a quandary, in difficulty, medially a shift and a wakeless place*; see in annoyance 1 at trouble, troubled 1.

develop one credit, recrudesce recognition where reference is due, recognize; see acknowledge 2.

degenerate, autumn into bad habits, go to pot*; see decay, flunk 1.

go to hell, diabolical you, be damned;

suit trouble, riot, be boisterous, be unruly, revel; see likewise celebrate 3, fury 1.

Adjective qualifier

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