Definitions
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 inChristian andJewish apocrypha .
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Examples
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The society has also taken to worshipping Satan, whom they refer to as Belial, and limiting reproduction to an annual two-week orgy which begins on "Belial's Day Eve" after the deformed babies are "purified by blood."
HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH News from Mad Plato 2009
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And while Basket Case's Belial is cut from the same cloth as the classic horror showstoppers, writer/director Frank Henenlotter brings the idea of the abhorred abomination to a new level, weaving a tapestry of cruelty that rivals anything endured by the fiends of yore.
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I find the language Milton uses interesting: "Belial is a manner more graceful and humane".
Paraphrasing Book II of Paradise Lost fantasyecho 2006
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The society has also taken to worshipping Satan, whom they refer to as Belial, and limiting reproduction to an annual two-week orgy which begins on "Belial's Day Eve" after the deformed babies are "purified by blood."
Archive 2009-03-01 News from Mad Plato 2007
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And, if a man of blood, no doubt a man of Belial, that is, a child of the devil, who is called Belial (2 Cor. vi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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The sinners are here called sons of Belial, that is, ungovernable men, men that would endure no yoke, children of the devil (for he is Belial), resembling him, and joining with him in rebellion against God and his government.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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She was brandishing what appeared to be a can of deodorant in the direction of the New Age believers when the mysterious crevice opened at Ms. Cumby's feet, swallowing her, several cartons of her books, and a rack displaying plush unicorns and Smurf dolls bearing labels such as "Belial" and
Constance Cumby "Cleansed" in "Harmonic Convergence": Speaks through "Trance Channel" (Parody) 1987
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"Belial" called Quarla Snow, affectionately stern.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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Like countless, awful human roommates, the movie’s would-be abortion known as Belial is extremely noisy and messy.
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A type of the far more glorious spiritual deliverance of God's people from Satan by Messiah, heralded by ministers of the Gospel (Ro 10: 15). perform thy vows -- which thou didst promise if God would deliver thee from the Assyrian. the wicked -- literally, "Belial"; the same as the "counsellor of Belial"
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