单词 | belial |
释义 | Belialn. The spirit of evil personified; used from early times as a name for the Devil or one of the fiends, and by Milton as the name of one of the fallen angels. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun] > specific names of > Belial hell bulla1225 Belialc1225 c1225 Juliana 38 Ich am þe deouel belial, deoflene wurest, ant mest is awariet. c1225 Juliana 16 Ȝe beliales budeles. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 319 And with þat breth helle brake with Beliales barres. c1384 J. Wyclif De Eccles. in Sel. Wks. III. 339 Christ comouneþ not wiþ Belial. c1572 W. Forrest Theophilus 416 in Anglia (1884) 7 91 This Belyall bill written with his bloode. 1663 Bk. Com. Prayer, Chas. Mart. In permitting cruel men, sons of Belial, (as on this day) to imbrue their hands in the blood of thine Anointed. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 490 Belial came last, then whom a Spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven. View more context for this quotation 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. ix. 226 A scoffer, a debauched person, and, in brief, a man of Belial. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxiii. 108 Belial is not originally a proper name..this is why there was no worship of Belial. Derivatives Beliˈalic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [adjective] > relating to Belial Belialic1822 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 464 Belialic qualities I could not have expected to find in him. ˈBelialist n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of devils, demons, or the Devil > practitioner of Satanist1559 demoniacal1565 demonist1610 Belialist1617 Apollyonist1627 demonomist1638 Satanite1675 diabolonian1682 draconist1684 demoniast1726 devil-worshipper1790 demonolater1850 thelemite1973 1617 G. Webbe Pract. Quietness (ed. 2) xiv. 217 The most vnquiet Belialist in his Parish. 1656 J. Trapp Comm. Matt. xi. 29 Christians must not be yokeless..Belialists. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1225 |
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