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Meanings of lucifer in English
(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell.
Portuguese
estrela do dia Catalan
estrella del matí A planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky.
Synonyms
Examples for "Satan"
Examples for "Satan"
1
Hundreds of years ago before the Children of Satan destroyed his castle.
2
And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel.
3
Thank you, Lord Satan, she said, not entirely pleased at this dismissal.
4
No wonder Satan doesn't want us to learn the truth about Heaven.
5
Far more likely it was the handiwork of one of Satan's avatars.
1
I think Old Nick ought to be Viscount Van, for alliteration sake.
2
So the dialogue opens between Old Nick and Nichol in the approved fashion:
3
Marks are still in the hillock last trod by Old Nick.
4
My dear Mr. Osborne, I am not afraid of the Old Nick himself.
5
And leave Old Nick unable to get through his fiery gate?
1
The Devil first appears in theology in these two forms of faith.
2
The Devil had played an important part in mythology in all times.
3
And in this way the Recitation was purified of the Devil's work.
4
In hell, Senora, the Devil is the leader of the best society.
5
Nobody sees the Devil but those who have faith in the Devil.
1
The Yattering fumbled for the special word it had heard Beelzebub use.
2
I always think of Beelzebub, who was the prince of the flies.
3
Then Lucifer stood up, and said: 'The counsel of Beelzebub is pertinent.
4
She heard thunder clapping between her ears and Beelzebub scratchin' a fiddle.
5
Pâté de foi gras is the devil, but caviare is Beelzebub himself.
1
Let us go home, my friends, and wrestle in prayer against the Tempter.
2
To buy Dr. Faustus's eternal damnation cost the Tempter the essential knowledge of mankind.
3
But just in that happy moment the Tempter gets in.
4
That way, whispered the Tempter, was too straight and simple.
5
Death, the Tempter, pointed homeward, to the grave of her dead parents in Combe-Raven churchyard.
1
And in his inverted theology God was really the Prince of Darkness.
2
Even Quasi, the feline Prince of Darkness, would be a welcome sight.
3
The army of the Lord and the army of the Prince of Darkness.
4
Forget forever those horrid hymns offered to the Prince of Darkness.
5
If all succeeds, it will mean an entire town-everyone-worshipingthePrince of Darkness.
Usage of lucifer in English
1
There was coal-smoke and a taste of lucifer matches in the air.
2
I struck a lucifer match and held it to the boy's face.
3
Taking a lucifer match in her hand she approached the fuse.
4
The old man struck a lucifer match and lit the gas.
5
She groped her way to the taper and the lucifer matches.
6
I recollect the first lucifer matches, and the wonder of them.
7
It would be entirely safe, even if it were built of lucifer matches.
8
I lighted another lucifer, just as she hesitated at the step.
9
A lucifer flared and the crusaders scattered away from their handiwork.
10
She held the pocket lucifer high above her head, speaking quietly.
11
Alvez held him back, at the same time placing a lucifer in his hand.
12
The Moth is now pinned down in a lucifer match box, awaiting your inspection.
13
He consulted his watch once more by the flickering light of a lucifer match.
14
Any fool can stick a lucifer match into a haystack and make a blaze.
15
To freeze to death merely because he did not have a dry lucifer match?
16
I only caught a glimpse of him by the feeble light of a lucifer match.
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