Definitionadj. showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
Last update: July 6, 2015
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Thou mayest be to all who take thee health of body and soul; that wherever thou art sprinkled every phantasy and wickedness and wile of diabolic deceit may flee and leave that place, and every unclean spirit"; a prayer to God for the blessing of the salt follows; then the "creature of water" is exorcized, "that thou mayest become exorcized water for the purpose of putting to flight every power of the enemy, that thou mayest avail to uproot and expel this enemy with all his apostate angels, by the virtue of the same our Lord Jesus Christ, &c."; and again a prayer to God follows that the water may "become a creature in the service of His mysteries, for the driving out of demons, &c." [Please select]
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In the formulae of blessings that follow, the special efficacy against devils is implied by the aspersion with holy water; the benedictions themselves are usually merely invocative of the divine protection or assistance, though, e.g., in the form for blessing sick animals the priest prays that "all diabolic power in them may be destroyed, and that they may be ill no longer." [Please select]
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VIRAG: (A diabolic rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage, cranes his scraggy neck forward.) [Please select]
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In the formulae of blessings that follow, the special efficacy against devils is implied by the aspersion with holy water; the benedictions themselves are usually merely invocative of the divine protection or assistance, though, e.g., in the form for blessing sick animals the priest prays that "all diabolic power in them may be destroyed, and that they may be ill no longer." [Please select]
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And then with diabolic art he made a feint at wandering to new fields of anecdote. [Please select]
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Followed a battery of merciless questions punctuated by the diabolic clank of metal. [Please select]
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The Captain was not one of those whom Terrence O'Connor credited with diabolic possession.' [Please select]
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At a given moment of time, the diabolic element had of necessity obtruded itself. [Please select]
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What if diabolic shapes lurked there, ready to become stealthily emergent. [Please select]
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