单词 | satanist |
释义 | Satanistn.adj. A. n. 1. a. A person who is regarded as a follower of Satan, or who adheres to beliefs or doctrines regarded as diabolically wicked or evil. Now rare or merged in sense A. 1b. 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 1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe sig. H1v The Anabaptistes, with infinite other swarmes of Satanistes. 1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. ii. ix. f. 81v Be ye Zuinglians, Arians,..Anabaptistes, Caluinistes, or Sathanistes? 1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde sig. H4v By nature an Athiest, By arte a Machiuelist, In summe a Sathanist, loe here his hire. 1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 16 By profession a Christian, by conversation a Satanist. 1800 A. Bishop Connecticut Republicanism 48 A great art, on these public occasions, has been to paint up a certain character in every deformity of vice,..to call this a democrat, disorganizer, jacobin and satanist. 1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 570 The aboriginal races of just men distinguished themselves by this very title, Alibenim, theogonists, or God's sons, from the atheistical Sathanists, or evil-seekers. 1883 Bystander Jan. 56 The Satanists may be few in number, compared with the defenders of morality and civilization; but if they are desperadoes, dynamite and incendiarism put terrible powers into their hands. 1927 U. M. Ellis-Fermor Christopher Marlowe vi. 100 A kind of diabolical cunning takes possession of Barabas [in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta]. He becomes, for the brief extent of an act and a half, a satanist, but a satanist who rebels against a world-order of unclean and unjust things. 1943 Pampa (Texas) News 25 Apr. 4/2 The New Deal satanists have taken the American voter up to many ‘high mountains’ since 1933. b. A person who worships or venerates Satan; one who practices Satanism (Satanism n. 3). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of devils, demons, or the Devil > in 19th-century France > practitioner of Satanist1894 1894 Daily Chron. 23 June 7/2 The French police..have been instructed to take some steps against the sect of devil worshippers... Apart from the stealing of consecrated hosts..the Satanists and Luciferians have organized a clandestine catechism class. 1926 C. Connolly Let. 16 May in Romantic Friendship (1975) 126 I think he's a satanist. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIX. 899/2 Such modern satanists as Aleister Crowley and Gerald Gardner. 1976 Eastern Evening News (Norwich) 29 Nov. The sisters..are on the trail of a group of Satanists, believed to have caused a young man's death. 2013 M. Lawson Deaths viii. 252 There was a guy who used to ring up in advance and tell them to take the Gideon out of the drawer. I don't think he was a Satanist or anything, just didn't think it should be forced down anyone's throat. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > specific schools of writers > writer belonging to Alexandrian1818 cockney1818 Satanist1823 spasmodista1849 Phosphorist1859 Félibre1876 sensitive1891 sensitivist1891 Alexandrine1904 Bloomsburian1927 Bloomsburyite1933 scrutineer1958 1823 Gentleman's Mag. May 439/2 An enlightened reader must view the writings of the Satanists with disgust. 3. Church History. A member of an early heterdox Christian sect whose adherents were believed to offer prayers to Satan; = Satanian n. rare. ΚΠ 1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 518 Satanists, a name sometimes given to the Euchites on account of the theory which they are alleged to have held that the power of Satan over men makes it right for them to pray to him that he will not exercise it to their harm. 2016 T. S. Berzon Classifying Christians iii. 76 Two other pagan sects, the Martyrians and the Satanists, evolved out of the pagan Messalians. 4. Literary Criticism. A critic who holds or advocates the view that Satan, as portrayed in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, has positive qualities or understandable motives, or who views Satan as the hero of the epic. ΚΠ 1930 E. M. W. Tillyard Milton 1 The only critics who seemed to tackle the problem in the right kind of way were the Satanists, namely those who invested the character of Satan with all that Milton felt and valued most strongly. 1968 Stud. Philol. 65 818 Only the sense that Satan is ‘an admirable moral agent’..seems to provide reasonable grounds for labeling a critic a Satanist. 1985 Sequoia Winter 49 One needn't be a Satanist to say this; that is, one need not agree with or even sympathize with Satan's feelings, motives, or plans in order to see what a magnificent character Milton has created in him. 2000 Y. Park Milton & Isaiah 115 Lewis does not mean that Milton makes Satan an admiring [sic] character as certain Romantics and modern Satanists have chosen to believe. B. adj. Of or relating to Satanists or Satanism (in various senses); esp. associated with or engaged in the worship or veneration of Satan. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [adjective] > of devils, demons, or the Devil diabolonian1682 demonolatric1816 demonolatrical1816 demonolatrous1818 Satanistic1850 Satanist1895 thelemic1951 1895 Liverpool Mercury 26 Dec. A Satanist hymn-book has been privately printed. 1904 New Internat. Encycl. XV. 463/1 Hosts which had been consecrated according to the rites of the Church, either by Satanist priests or by true priests.., played an important part. 1964 Amer. Scholar 34 126/1 It is not quite an accident that the Satanist view of Paradise Lost found its voice at the end of the century. 1972 D. Cohen Voodoo, Devils, & New Invisible World ii. 44 [Many critics] hope that the fear of a large Satanist movement will drive the masses back into the churches. 2007 H. A. Berger & D. Ezzy Teenage Witches vii. 234 Witchcraft may lead young people away from Satanism, rather than toward it. More research, particularly on teenagers who are Satanist, is needed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1559 |
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