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DEÓFOL

  • noun [ masculineneuter ]
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Grammar
DEÓFOL, deóful, dióful; contracted to deófl; gen. es; dat. ; nom. pl.deóflu , deófol; gen. deófla; m. n.
Wright's OE grammar
§104; §223; §293; §299; §340;
TheDEVIL ; diabŏlus.
m. Nú þencþ menig man and smeáþ hwanon deófol cóme? Ðonne wite he ðæt God gesceóp, to mǽran engle, ðone ðe nú is deófol; ac God ne gesceóp hine ná to deófle; ac ðá ðá he wæs mid ealle fordón and forscyldgod þurh ða miclan upahefednysse and wiðerweardnysse, ðá wearþ he to deófle awend, se ðe ǽr wæs mǽre engel geworht now many a man will think and inquire whence the devil came? Then let him know that God created, as a great angel, him who is now the devil; but God did not create him as the devil; but when he was wholly done for and guilty towards God, through his great haughtiness and enmity, then became he changed to the devil, who before was created a great angel,
  • Homl. Th. i. 12,
    • 18-23.
Se deófol ne wunode ná on sóþfæstnysse, forðamðe seó soþfæstnyss nis náteshwon on him the devil abided not in the truth, because the truth is not in any wise in him , Hexam. 10; Norm. 16, 18. Ðæt he ðone deófol adrífe
ut dæmŏnium ejicĕret,
  • Mk. Bos. 7,
    • 26.
n. Him biþ ðæt deófol láþ the devil is loathly to them, Salm. Kmhl. 246; Sal. 122. Hyre ðæt deófol oncwæþ the devil addressed her, Exon. 72 b; Th. 270, 5; Jul. 460. Heó ðæt deófol genom she took the devil, 69 b; Th. 259, 27; Jul. 288. Heó ðæt deófol teáh bendum fæstne she drew the devil fast in bonds, 73 b; Th. 274, 17; Jul. 534. On deófla ealdre he drífþ út deóflu in princĭpe dæmoniōrum ejĭcit dæmĕnes, Mt. Bos. 9, 34. Deófol, nom. pl. Exon. 30 b; Th. 93, 27; Cri. 1532 : acc. pl.
Exon. 118 b; Th. 455. 18; Hy. 4, 51.
Etymology
[
Prompt. dewle, devylle :
Wyc. deuel :
Piers P. deovel :
Chauc. deuill :
Laym. deauel, deouel :
Orm. deofell, defell :
Plat. düvel, düwel, m :
O. Sax. diuƀal, diobol, diabol, diuvil, m :
Frs. deal, dijvel, m :
O. Frs. diovel, divel, m :
Dut. duivel, m :
Ger. teufel, m :
M. H. Ger. tiuvel, tievel, m :
O. H. Ger. tiufal, m :
Goth. diabaulus, m :
Dan. bdiævel, dievel, m :
Swed. djefvul, m :
Icel. djöfull, m :
Lat. diabŏlus, m :
Grk. διάβoλυs an accuser or slanderer, m : from διαβάλλω to cast or dart through or against; figuratively, to stab with an accusation or slander; διά through, against, and βάλλω to cast. Διάβoλos = άντίδĭκos an opponent, adversary = ןטָשָׂ m. Satan, q. v.
]
Derived forms
helle-deófol, hilde-
Linked entries
v.  deóful.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “DEÓFOL.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/7578.

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