diabolicadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌdʌɪəˈbɒlɪk/, U.S.

/ˌdaɪəˈbɑlɪk/

Forms: Middle English deabolik, Middle English–1500s dyabolyke, Middle English–1500s dyabolyque, 1500s dyabolic (Scottish), 1500s dyabolyck, 1500s–1600s diabolike, 1500s–1600s diabolique, 1500s–1700s diabolick, 1600s diabolicke, 1600s– diabolic.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French diabolique; Latin diabolicus.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French diabolique, dyabolique of, belonging to, or involving the Devil, of the nature of a devil (end of the 13th cent. in Old French as deabolique ), fiendish, evil, wicked (late 14th cent.), designating witchcraft or sorcery involving the invocation of the Devil (a1400), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin diabolicus of or relating to the Devil, devilish (Vulgate) < Hellenistic Greek διαβολικός slanderous, in Byzantine Greek also devilish < Hellenistic Greek διάβολος devil (see devil n.) + -ικός -ic suffix.Compare Catalan diabòlic (1460), Spanish diabólico (first half of the 14th cent.), Portuguese diabólico (14th cent.), Italian diabolico (late 13th cent.), and also German diabolisch (early 16th cent.).

A. adj.

a. Of, belonging to, or involving the Devil or a devil; of the nature of a devil or devils; (supposedly) under the influence of the Devil or a devil.

ΘΚΠ

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

c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. l. 199 Alle deabolik doeris dispise hem ichone.

a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. cclxxxxii/1 To knowe by what moyen his doughter myght ben preserued from this vexacyon dyabolyke.

1533–4 Act 25 Henry VIII c. 12 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 447 To use the seid Elizabeth as a dyabolyke instrument to [stere] move and provoke the people of this Realme.

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1372/2 But not the church which you call catholique, which soner might be termed diabolique.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 95 Doubt..of Diabolic pow'r Active within beyond the sense of brute.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. i. 13 Suitable to many Ecstatic Diabolic Enthusiasts.

1716 tr. M.-C. D'Aulnoy Hist. Tales of Fairies i. 15 They laid their diabolick Heads together, and consulted how they might punish her with Tasks impossible to be perform'd by any Mortal.

1764 Anti-times 4 Thro' Hell of late, a sov'reign mandate flew, To convocate the diabolic Crew.

1822 Ld. Byron Vision of Judgm. xxxvii. 15 He [sc. Satan] merely bent his diabolic brow An instant.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vii. 60/1 A Hell..without Life, though only diabolic Life, were more frightful.

1862 J. M. Neale Hymns Eastern Church 123 Diabolic legions press thee?

1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant II. ii. 48 Theories..about lunacy and diabolic possession.

1908 East Anglian Jan. 309 But the tower was never completed, some say through diabolic influence which destroyed by night the work accomplished by day.

1973 Amer. Hist. Rev. 78 121/1 Mr. Johnston..revives Marcionism—an early heresy stressing the diabolic component in the creation.

2003 H. P. Broedel Malleus Maleficarum & Constr. of Witchcraft iii. 58 The witch thus becomes a human extension of the diabolic realm.

b. Designating witchcraft or sorcery involving the (supposed) invocation of evil spirits or the Devil; of or relating to, or practising this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [adjective]

witchOE

wielfulc1275

magica1393

superstitiousc1425

diabolic1485

magicala1492

prestigious?1534

sorcerous1546

witching1567

wizardly1588

wizard1638

stoicheiotical1646

witchcraftical1676

maleficious1684

Arabian-night1808

Magian1818

wizard-like1859

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. kvii/1 By arte magyke and dyabolyke he closed therin a legyon of deuylles for to kepe it and make sygnes for to abuse the peple.

1596 P. Lowe Easie Method to cure Spanish Sicknes i. xi. sig. C2^v There are also many who professe to knowe secrets, and diabolick charmes for curation hereof, but all such things are false.

1682 J. Shirley Eccl. Hist. Epitomiz'd 93 He greatly addicted himself to the Study of Magick, that Diabolick Art.

1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions vi. 58 I have already entred my Protest against all those Arts call'd Magical and Diabolic.

1778 A. Kellet Pocket of Prose & Verse 157 Diabolic sorcerers are reported to have sprung up again in several parts of England.

1834 R. M. Bird Calavar II. xiii. 105 ‘I have nothing to do with the magic that is diabolic,’ said the offended enchanter.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. iv. 34 His belief in some diabolic fortune favouring Tito.

1926 P. Van Dyke Ignatius Loyola xix. 301 His own mother had suffered from the diabolic spells of a neighbour which made her children ‘nearly scream themselves to death’.

1975 Hist. Relig. 14 155 Only in 1634..do we come across the first accusation of stregoni performing the traditional diabolic Sabbath.

2004 L. Roper Witch Craze vii. 173 Like a master of a craft, the old woman teaches the younger the secrets of the diabolic trade.

a. Reminiscent or characteristic of a devil in nature or behaviour; devilish, fiendish; evil, wicked.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > diabolicalness > [adjective]

devillyOE

fiendenc1315

serpentinec1422

devilish?a1439

diabolic?1483

feding1502

diabolical1546

satanic1556

demoniacal1565

serpent-likea1586

serpentive1635

devilized1641

fiendlike1716

diabolish1865

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

?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton i. sig. bij Lesyng is a synne dyabolyque.

1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 8^v Of these most hellyshe & dyabolyck frutes, holye Saynt Paule admonyshed the Romanes, in the firste chaptre of hys Epystle.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 43 He does not play the Soothsayer but the diabolick slanderer of prayers.

1749 Advocate for Brit. Sailors 16 These Fellows..are hackney'd in the Arts of Calumny, Enmity and Slander of diabolick hew.

1796 A. Portal Vortimer iii. 38 O, horror! on my name is fixed The foul, the more than diabolic crime Of Parricide!

1835 R. M. Bird Infidel II. xix. 207 ‘Never sat in the castle-hall a fiend more truculent and diabolic!’ cried Cortes.

1870 Fortn. Rev. July 193 A diabolic drama of selfishness and violence.

1943 R. Lowell Let. 7 Sept. in I. Hamilton Robert Lowell (1982) vi. 88 Savagery was unavoidable in our nation's struggle for its life against diabolic adversaries.

1966 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 18 Sept. 10/2 He stood accused of the diabolic murder of a 13-year-old Christian boy.

2006 Tablet 14 Oct. 24/2 A diabolic plan for world domination is afoot.

b. Resembling or characteristic of a devil in appearance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > of disreputable appearance

diabolical1752

scarecrow1761

villainous-looking1777

diabolic1789

scarecrowy1862

scarecrowish1892

1789 Sketch Life & Char. Dr. Monsey 68 The effects of the disease..were, a shocking wolf-like yell, agonizing pain, attended with diabolic distortion of countenance.

1862 H. Taylor St. Clement's Eve i. iii. 29 Some I daily met Of aspect diabolic.

1901 Wisconsin Alumni Mag. Jan. 165 On a higher pile of rocks at the end sat a diabolic figure in scarlet, cloven hoofs, horns, tail and all.

1979 Washington Post 11 Mar. l7/1 Her hair is frizzed up into two diabolic horns atop her head.

2005 J. Sutherland So you think you know T. Hardy? 185 His diabolic whiskers are shaven off.

B. n.

An agent or follower of the Devil; a wicked person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun]

hell-devileOE

shuckc888

ghosteOE

devilOE

warlockOE

angelOE

unwighta1200

beastc1225

ragmanc1400

Satanasc1426

diabolic1502

ruffy1502

Satan?1545

Avernal?1548

fallen angel?1587

rebel angel1623

deedle1653

blackamoor1663

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xv. sig. x.iiii^v Of inuocacyons of the deuyll..or of paccyon with hym and with his dyabolykes.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 215 Witches..Hydro and Pyro-mantiques and other Diaboliques.

1806 T. Moore Epistles, Odes 335 Scarce there happen'd any frolics, That were not done by Diabolics.

1921 Open Court Feb. 88 Barbey even went so far as to give the third of these three diabolics his own two personal names Jules Amedee.

2011 Afr. News (Nexis) 29 Apr. ‘It is time to chase the diabolics and criminals who still have cases to answer..,’ Soyinka added.

Compounds

Complementary, as diabolic-looking, diabolic-sounding adjs.

ΚΠ

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. iii. 71 A..more or less Diabolic-looking man.

1946 D. Dexter Jazz Cavalcade vii. 97 Pollack boasted..that he had featured the diabolic-sounding guitar ‘first’.

1981 New Castle (Pa.) News 25 Sept. 4/3 Because one species of bat has a diabolic-looking face, the Devil is often portrayed in bat form.

2008 J. Boris tr. Z. Hetényi In Maelstrom iii. 148 The sensitive Mark, and the diabolic-looking, nihilist-anarchistic, all-denying Zheltukha.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	diabolic
释义	diabolicadj.n. Brit. /ˌdʌɪəˈbɒlɪk/, U.S. /ˌdaɪəˈbɑlɪk/ Forms: Middle English deabolik, Middle English–1500s dyabolyke, Middle English–1500s dyabolyque, 1500s dyabolic (Scottish), 1500s dyabolyck, 1500s–1600s diabolike, 1500s–1600s diabolique, 1500s–1700s diabolick, 1600s diabolicke, 1600s– diabolic. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French diabolique; Latin diabolicus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French diabolique, dyabolique of, belonging to, or involving the Devil, of the nature of a devil (end of the 13th cent. in Old French as deabolique ), fiendish, evil, wicked (late 14th cent.), designating witchcraft or sorcery involving the invocation of the Devil (a1400), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin diabolicus of or relating to the Devil, devilish (Vulgate) < Hellenistic Greek διαβολικός slanderous, in Byzantine Greek also devilish < Hellenistic Greek διάβολος devil (see devil n.) + -ικός -ic suffix.Compare Catalan diabòlic (1460), Spanish diabólico (first half of the 14th cent.), Portuguese diabólico (14th cent.), Italian diabolico (late 13th cent.), and also German diabolisch (early 16th cent.). A. adj. 1. a. Of, belonging to, or involving the Devil or a devil; of the nature of a devil or devils; (supposedly) under the influence of the Devil or a devil. ΘΚΠ 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 c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. l. 199 Alle deabolik doeris dispise hem ichone. a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. cclxxxxii/1 To knowe by what moyen his doughter myght ben preserued from this vexacyon dyabolyke. 1533–4 Act 25 Henry VIII c. 12 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 447 To use the seid Elizabeth as a dyabolyke instrument to [stere] move and provoke the people of this Realme. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1372/2 But not the church which you call catholique, which soner might be termed diabolique. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 95 Doubt..of Diabolic pow'r Active within beyond the sense of brute. View more context for this quotation 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. i. 13 Suitable to many Ecstatic Diabolic Enthusiasts. 1716 tr. M.-C. D'Aulnoy Hist. Tales of Fairies i. 15 They laid their diabolick Heads together, and consulted how they might punish her with Tasks impossible to be perform'd by any Mortal. 1764 Anti-times 4 Thro' Hell of late, a sov'reign mandate flew, To convocate the diabolic Crew. 1822 Ld. Byron Vision of Judgm. xxxvii. 15 He [sc. Satan] merely bent his diabolic brow An instant. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vii. 60/1 A Hell..without Life, though only diabolic Life, were more frightful. 1862 J. M. Neale Hymns Eastern Church 123 Diabolic legions press thee? 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant II. ii. 48 Theories..about lunacy and diabolic possession. 1908 East Anglian Jan. 309 But the tower was never completed, some say through diabolic influence which destroyed by night the work accomplished by day. 1973 Amer. Hist. Rev. 78 121/1 Mr. Johnston..revives Marcionism—an early heresy stressing the diabolic component in the creation. 2003 H. P. Broedel Malleus Maleficarum & Constr. of Witchcraft iii. 58 The witch thus becomes a human extension of the diabolic realm. b. Designating witchcraft or sorcery involving the (supposed) invocation of evil spirits or the Devil; of or relating to, or practising this. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [adjective] witchOE wielfulc1275 magica1393 superstitiousc1425 diabolic1485 magicala1492 prestigious?1534 sorcerous1546 witching1567 wizardly1588 wizard1638 stoicheiotical1646 witchcraftical1676 maleficious1684 Arabian-night1808 Magian1818 wizard-like1859 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. kvii/1 By arte magyke and dyabolyke he closed therin a legyon of deuylles for to kepe it and make sygnes for to abuse the peple. 1596 P. Lowe Easie Method to cure Spanish Sicknes i. xi. sig. C2^v There are also many who professe to knowe secrets, and diabolick charmes for curation hereof, but all such things are false. 1682 J. Shirley Eccl. Hist. Epitomiz'd 93 He greatly addicted himself to the Study of Magick, that Diabolick Art. 1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions vi. 58 I have already entred my Protest against all those Arts call'd Magical and Diabolic. 1778 A. Kellet Pocket of Prose & Verse 157 Diabolic sorcerers are reported to have sprung up again in several parts of England. 1834 R. M. Bird Calavar II. xiii. 105 ‘I have nothing to do with the magic that is diabolic,’ said the offended enchanter. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. iv. 34 His belief in some diabolic fortune favouring Tito. 1926 P. Van Dyke Ignatius Loyola xix. 301 His own mother had suffered from the diabolic spells of a neighbour which made her children ‘nearly scream themselves to death’. 1975 Hist. Relig. 14 155 Only in 1634..do we come across the first accusation of stregoni performing the traditional diabolic Sabbath. 2004 L. Roper Witch Craze vii. 173 Like a master of a craft, the old woman teaches the younger the secrets of the diabolic trade. 2. a. Reminiscent or characteristic of a devil in nature or behaviour; devilish, fiendish; evil, wicked. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > diabolicalness > [adjective] devillyOE fiendenc1315 serpentinec1422 devilish?a1439 diabolic?1483 feding1502 diabolical1546 satanic1556 demoniacal1565 serpent-likea1586 serpentive1635 devilized1641 fiendlike1716 diabolish1865 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 ?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton i. sig. bij Lesyng is a synne dyabolyque. 1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 8^v Of these most hellyshe & dyabolyck frutes, holye Saynt Paule admonyshed the Romanes, in the firste chaptre of hys Epystle. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 43 He does not play the Soothsayer but the diabolick slanderer of prayers. 1749 Advocate for Brit. Sailors 16 These Fellows..are hackney'd in the Arts of Calumny, Enmity and Slander of diabolick hew. 1796 A. Portal Vortimer iii. 38 O, horror! on my name is fixed The foul, the more than diabolic crime Of Parricide! 1835 R. M. Bird Infidel II. xix. 207 ‘Never sat in the castle-hall a fiend more truculent and diabolic!’ cried Cortes. 1870 Fortn. Rev. July 193 A diabolic drama of selfishness and violence. 1943 R. Lowell Let. 7 Sept. in I. Hamilton Robert Lowell (1982) vi. 88 Savagery was unavoidable in our nation's struggle for its life against diabolic adversaries. 1966 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 18 Sept. 10/2 He stood accused of the diabolic murder of a 13-year-old Christian boy. 2006 Tablet 14 Oct. 24/2 A diabolic plan for world domination is afoot. b. Resembling or characteristic of a devil in appearance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > of disreputable appearance diabolical1752 scarecrow1761 villainous-looking1777 diabolic1789 scarecrowy1862 scarecrowish1892 1789 Sketch Life & Char. Dr. Monsey 68 The effects of the disease..were, a shocking wolf-like yell, agonizing pain, attended with diabolic distortion of countenance. 1862 H. Taylor St. Clement's Eve i. iii. 29 Some I daily met Of aspect diabolic. 1901 Wisconsin Alumni Mag. Jan. 165 On a higher pile of rocks at the end sat a diabolic figure in scarlet, cloven hoofs, horns, tail and all. 1979 Washington Post 11 Mar. l7/1 Her hair is frizzed up into two diabolic horns atop her head. 2005 J. Sutherland So you think you know T. Hardy? 185 His diabolic whiskers are shaven off. B. n. An agent or follower of the Devil; a wicked person. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun] hell-devileOE shuckc888 ghosteOE devilOE warlockOE angelOE unwighta1200 beastc1225 ragmanc1400 Satanasc1426 diabolic1502 ruffy1502 Satan?1545 Avernal?1548 fallen angel?1587 rebel angel1623 deedle1653 blackamoor1663 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xv. sig. x.iiii^v Of inuocacyons of the deuyll..or of paccyon with hym and with his dyabolykes. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 215 Witches..Hydro and Pyro-mantiques and other Diaboliques. 1806 T. Moore Epistles, Odes 335 Scarce there happen'd any frolics, That were not done by Diabolics. 1921 Open Court Feb. 88 Barbey even went so far as to give the third of these three diabolics his own two personal names Jules Amedee. 2011 Afr. News (Nexis) 29 Apr. ‘It is time to chase the diabolics and criminals who still have cases to answer..,’ Soyinka added. Compounds Complementary, as diabolic-looking, diabolic-sounding adjs. ΚΠ 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. iii. 71 A..more or less Diabolic-looking man. 1946 D. Dexter Jazz Cavalcade vii. 97 Pollack boasted..that he had featured the diabolic-sounding guitar ‘first’. 1981 New Castle (Pa.) News 25 Sept. 4/3 Because one species of bat has a diabolic-looking face, the Devil is often portrayed in bat form. 2008 J. Boris tr. Z. Hetényi In Maelstrom iii. 148 The sensitive Mark, and the diabolic-looking, nihilist-anarchistic, all-denying Zheltukha. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1475
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