Crossword clues for devourer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Devourer \De*vour"er\, n. One who, or that which, devours.
Wiktionary
n. One who devours.
WordNet
n. someone who eats greedily or voraciously
Wikipedia
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the devourer is an undead creature which lurks on the Ethereal Plane and Astral Plane.
In certain religions and mythologies, a devourer is a powerful destructive entity, such as Satan or Boreas (the North Wind in Greek mythology). Devourers are typically associated with death, either by devouring the living (thereby killing them) or by devouring the dead.
Category:Mythology
Usage examples of "devourer".
From the same record we gather that Coleridge's interest in current politics was already keen, and that he was an eager reader, not only of Burke's famous contributions thereto, but even a devourer of all the pamphlets which swarmed during that agitated period from the press.
But it is a devourer of carrion and a clawer at graves, and when it has fed upon human flesh it knows, at least for a time, the speech and ways of human beings.
Pempton was an apparent dissentient, as the man must be who is half a century ahead of his fellows in humaneness, and saddened by the display of slaughtered herds and their devourers.
Of the horrid Devourers and their abominable tactics and of how the Gray Mouser and Fafhrd, by sheerest luck, finally bested them.
There is a deep necessity in this, for the Devourers must occupy all their cunning in perfecting their methods of selling and so have not an instant to spare in considering the worth of what they sell.
The Devourers want not only the patronage of all beings in all universes, but - doubtless because they are afraid someone will some day raise the ever-unpleasant question of the true worth of things - they want all their customers reduced to a state of slavish and submissive suggestibility, so that they are fit for nothing whatever but to gawk at and buy the trash the Devourers offer for sale.
This means of course that eventually the Devourers' customers will have nothing wherewith to pay the Devourers for their trash, but the Devourers do not seem to be concerned with this eventuality.
Beyond this, each of the Devourers also secretly collects and hides away forever, to delight no eyes but his own, all the finest objects and thoughts created by true men and women (and true wizards and true demons) and bought by the Devourers at bankruptcy prices and paid for with trash or - this is their ultimate preference - with nothing at all.
But unfortunately he came early to his appointment with my colleague here and was enticed into the shop of the Devourers and is doubtless now deep in their snares, if not already extinct.
The Devourers want not only the patronage of all beings in all universes, but—doubtless because they are afraid someone will someday raise the ever-unpleasant question, of the true worth of things—they want all their customers reduced to a state of slavish and submissive suggestibility, so that they are fit for nothing whatever but to gawk at and buy the trash the Devourers offer for sale.
This means of course that eventually the Devourers’ customers will have nothing wherewith to pay the Devourers for their trash, but the Devourers do not seem to be concerned with this eventuality.
Beyond this, each of the Devourers also secretly collects and hides away forever, to delight no eyes but his own, all the finest objects and thoughts created by true men and women (and true wizards and true demons) and bought by the Devourers at bankruptcy prices and paid for with trash or—this is their ultimate preference—with nothing at all.
Without new Devourers his task in this new world would be made the more difficult.
Glancing through the gap in the shutters, he saw Devourers clambering over Jeremiah's wagon, moving into the cabin and up through the hatches.
The newly dug cavern rang to the sound of devourers and the cries of the oolt'os manning them.