Asmodeus
an evil spirit.
Historical Examples
She would cleave to the good God Lucifer, and she aspired to be the bride of Asmodeus.
Devil-Worship in France Arthur Edward Waite
Aeshma, later Asmodeus, may be named; he is one of the Drvants, or storm-fiends.
History of Religion Allan Menzies
I feel like “waving aside all roofs,” in the way of Le Sage’s Asmodeus.
Adventures In Contentment David Grayson
In short, we became inseparable; and our despised and despising fellow-students thence designated us Don Cleofas and Asmodeus.
Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, vol. 1/2 Charles Rochfort Scott
Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version Various
Asmodeus sharpened his wits in his conversations with the wisest of kings.
Devil Stories Various
The devils of Lust are considered elsewhere, and Asmodeus among them; there is another aspect of him which here concerns us.
Demonology and Devil-lore Moncure Daniel Conway
Unswerving Nemesis has followed that wild theorem in many forms, of which the most significant is Asmodeus.
Demonology and Devil-lore Moncure Daniel Conway
It was as if some invisible Asmodeus had revealed to this simple frontiersman a world of which he had never dreamed.
Selected Stories Bret Harte
Along with pretty Saracen maidens, or memories of them, were brought back into Europe legends of Asmodeus.
Demonology and Devil-lore Moncure Daniel Conway
noun
(in Jewish demonology) prince of the demons
evil spirit, prince of demons, from Latin Asmodaeus, from Greek Asmodaios, from Talmudic Hebrew Ashmeday, from Avestan Aeshma-dæva, “Aeshma the deceitful,” from aeshma “anger,” daeva- “spirit, demon.”
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