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- noun A
chief orreigning devil. - noun computing, Unix A program, or part of a program, which is not invoked
explicitly but liesdormant waiting for someevent .
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Panurge, what archdevil is it that hath possessed this Master
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Panurge, what archdevil is it that hath possessed this Master
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The language of Milton's archdevil 'Evil, be thou my good,' is the creed of modern reformers, or, in other words -- anything for a change.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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The language of Milton's archdevil 'Evil, be thou my good,' is the creed of modern reformers, or, in other words -- _anything for a change_.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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But, quoth Panurge, what archdevil is it that hath possessed this Master Raminagrobis, that so unreasonably, and without any occasion, he should have so snappishly and bitterly inveighed against these poor honest fathers, Jacobins, Minors, and Minims?
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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