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Word Meanings - LUCIFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages. (more info) 1. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. How art thou fallen from heaven,
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A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages. (more info) 1. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations ! Is. xiv. 12. Tertullian and Gregory the Great understood this passage of Isaiah in reference to the fall of Satan; in consequence of which the name Lucifer has since been applied to, Satan. Kitto. 2. Hence, Satan. How wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! . . . When he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. Shak. 3. A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco.
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- LUCIFERIAN
1. Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish. 2. Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader. - DEMONIC
Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac. "Demonic ambushes." Lowell. - DEMONSTRABLY
In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly. Cases that demonstrably concerned the public cause. Clarendon. - DEMONRY
Demoniacal influence or possession. J. Baillie. - LUCIFEROUSLY
In a luciferous manner. - DEMONIASM
See DEMONIANISM - DEMON
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham. 2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. 3. An evil spirit; a devil. That - DEVILET
A little devil. Barham. - DEVILESS
A she-devil. Sterne. - DEVILISM
The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils. Bp. Hall. - DEMONIAC
One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved. (more info) 1. A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon. The demoniac in the gospel was - DEVILISH
1. Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. "Devilish wickedness." Sir P. Sidney. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15. 2. Extreme; excessive. - DEMONOLOGIC; DEMONOLOGICAL
Of or Pertaining to demonology. - DEMONSTRATER
See DEMONSTRATOR - DEVILFISH
A huge ray of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera. A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus. The gray whale - DEMONESS
A female demon. - DEMONIAN
Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon. "Demonian spirits." Milton. - DEMONIACISM
The state of being demoniac, or the practices of demoniacs. - LUCIFER
A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages. (more info) 1. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. How art thou fallen from heaven, - DEVILWOOD
A kind of tree , allied to the European olive. - VAUDEVILLE
where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th century, composed such 1. A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song. - SWINGDEVIL
The European swift. - WATER DEVIL
The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.