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- adjective
Satanic .
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Examples
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My feeling is on this is that this young man was smart enough to etch the symbol in Ms. Vitale to try to lead investigation to show maybe it was a ritualistic or Satanical killing.
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It is difficult to preserve any dignity of demeanour or thought, with a man's hand at one's neck and his knee in one's back: and I felt that Lucius had displayed a really Satanical malignity in using this particular means of degrading me in Cynthia's sight, and of regaining his own lost influence.
The Child of the Dawn Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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Satanical character, who made a strange agreement with Rodolphe
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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"Yes, Haveril would bite at the very devil if his Satanical Majesty was filled to the teeth with brandy," exclaimed Jenkins, the others chorusing with a series of discordant laughs.
The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. Andrew Learmont Spedon 1857
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[29] Bowing he strictly prohibited, and, indeed, seemed to consider it as the effect of Satanical influence; for, as he observed, the woman in the Gospel, while she had a spirit of infirmity, was bowed together, and ceased to bow as soon as Divine power had liberated her from the tyranny of the Evil One.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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"I have still to learn those Satanical arts," returned Barton, "and therefore could not teach them."
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805
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More particularly, it is with Satanical power and deceit.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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What Christ called them -- depths of Satan, Satanical delusions and devices, diabolical mysteries; for there is a mystery of iniquity, as well and the great mystery of godliness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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What a hoot (that's a yesteryear Satanical symbol),,
Raw Story 2009
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What a hoot (that's a yesteryear Satanical symbol),,
Raw Story 2009
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