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diabolism|daɪˈæbəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. Gr. διάβολ-ος devil + -ism: cf. diabolize.]
1. Action in which the devil has, or is supposed to have, a share; dealing with the devil; sorcery, witchcraft.
1614Jackson Creed iii. xxx. Wks. II. 559 Diabolism or symbolizing with infernal spirits. 1762Warburton Doctr. Grace ii. xii, The Farce of Diabolisms and Exorcisms. 1855Smedley Occult Sciences 82 Any compact savouring of diabolism. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 466 Ephesus was the head-quarters of diabolism and sorcery.
2. Action or conduct worthy of the devil; diabolical or devilish conduct, devilry.
1681Baxter Answ. Dodwell Introd. C iij, If you had rather, call it Church-Tyranny, Cruelty, or Diabolism. 1683E. Hooker Pref. Ep. Pordage's Mystic Div. 18 Speculativ Infidelitie, practicous Atheism, horrid Blasphemies, and all manner of Diabolism. 1777T. Campbell Surv. S. Ireland (1778) 298 A degree of diabolism, not to be found in the human heart. 1826Gent. Mag. I. 636/1 The mob are stimulated by harangues to new acts of diabolism. 1884J. Parker Apost. Life III. 75 To put an end to their censure, their malice, their diabolism of spirit.
†b. A doctrine of devils; a devilish system of belief. Obs.
1608T. James Apol. Wyclif 66 [He] taught..[that] there was an equalitie of al men, and communion of al things, which is pure Anabaptisme, or Diabolisme rather.
3. Doctrine or system of opinions as to devils; belief in or worship of the devil.
1660Fisher Rusticks Alarm Wks. (1679) 557 Delusion, Fanaticism, Enthusiasm, Quakerism, Diabolism. 1822Lamb Lett. xii. To B. Barton 114, I do not know whether diabolism is part of your creed. 1874Wood Nat. Hist. 4 Putting aside the terrors of diabolism, which are engrained in the native African mind.
4. The character or nature of a devil.
1754Fielding J. Wild i. i, Only enough [goodness] to make him partaker of the imperfection of humanity, instead of the perfection of diabolism. 1778T. Hartley Pref. Swedenborg's Heav. & H. (1851) 48 Now the very idea of diabolism carries in it a repugnance and hatred to God and goodness. 1838Blackw. Mag. XLIII 770 The brutal vulgar ruffian, who makes as close an approach to pure diabolism as the imperfect faculties of human nature will permit. |