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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A personification of wickedness and ungodliness alluded to in the Bible.
  • noun One of the fallen angels who rebelled against God in Milton's Paradise Lost.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The spirit of evil personified; the devil; Satan; in Milton, one of the fallen angels, distinct from Satan.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil.
  • noun a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A wicked demon in Christian and Jewish apocrypha.

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