SATAN

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• SATAN (noun)
  The noun SATAN has 1 sense:

1. (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell

  Familiarity information: SATAN used as a noun is very rare.

• SATAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Beelzebub; Devil; Lucifer; Old Nick; Prince of Darkness; Satan; the Tempter

Instance hypernyms:

spiritual being; supernatural being (an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events)

Domain category:

faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)

Islam; Islamism; Mohammedanism; Muhammadanism; Muslimism (the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran)

Derivation:

Satanic (of or relating to Satan)

 Context examples 

The last, I think; for, O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Satan himself is loose in it! We are given over into his hands!”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Egad, Doctor,” returned Mr. Wickfield, “if Doctor Watts knew mankind, he might have written, with as much truth, “Satan finds some mischief still, for busy hands to do.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.’

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the records are such words as 'stregoica'—witch, 'ordog,' and 'pokol'—Satan and hell; and in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as 'wampyr,' which we all understand too well.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The days kept getting longer and longer, the weather was unusually variable and so were tempers; an unsettled feeling possessed everyone, and Satan found plenty of mischief for the idle hands to do.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

According as the shifting obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there, it was now the bearded physician, Luke, that bent his brow; now St. John's long hair that waved; and anon the devilish face of Judas, that grew out of the panel, and seemed gathering life and threatening a revelation of the arch-traitor—of Satan himself—in his subordinate's form.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

What does Doctor Watts say, he added, looking at me, and moving his head to the time of his quotation, Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I never saw a circle of such hateful faces; and there was the man in the middle, with a kind of black sneering coolness—frightened too, I could see that—but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan. ‘If you choose to make capital out of this accident,’ said he, ‘I am naturally helpless.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)