(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell.
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.
6 In the evening the Tempter 's voice is heard:
7 But then the Tempter overreached himself, for he whispered: And the voice would be always Jane's.
8 Death, the Tempter , was busy at her heart.
9 Flown with the Tempter ; - life have been preserved,-
10 No shock of horror chilled me; no remembrance of a voluntary assent to the Tempter could I recall.
11 He indignantly told the Tempter that he was content to do things in the good old fashioned way.
12 And like the occult Master that He was, He summoned His Inner Forces and beat off the Tempter .
13 Through the baits the Tempter brought
14 A name, more fearful than a thunderclap, burst despairingly from the lips of the Tempter , and he disappeared.
15 I try to skwush the Tempter 's voice 'at urges me within;
16 For the Tempter had come into this Eden, and soon his foul whisper found place in her heart.
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