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eblis
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eblis \Eb"lis\, n. [Ar. iblis.] (Moham. Myth.) The prince of the evil spirits; Satan. [Written also Eblees .]
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (Islam) the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game , the eblis is an evil, magical, superintelligent bird which lives in secluded marshes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prince of the fallen angels in Arabic mythology and religion, from Arabic Iblis . Klein thinks this may be Greek diablos , passed through Syriac where the first syllable was mistaken for the Syriac genitive particle di and dropped. "Before his fall he was ...
Usage examples of eblis.
Oh, Billy, I used to look at Eblis and think, 'There's Wescacus malinoctis right there: it'll be a super Eierkopf!
The NOCTIS program was going to be combined with another secret one, that Eblis had got Chancellor Hector very excited about -- what they called it the Cum Laude Project.
Even before Lucius Rexford was elected, Chancellor Hector put an end to the Cum Laude Project and demoted Eblis Eierkopf to some job where he can't do any harm.
But in New Tammany once, when Eblis Eierkopf and I were working on the WESCAC, I got to know the Chancellor's daughter, that was the tape-librarian in Tower Hall.
And Eblis and I, we were fighting then about Wescacus malinoctis and the Cum Laude Project.
He went on in this vein, not always coherently: Eblis Eierkopf he cursed for a flunkèd soulless monster who had betrayed studentdom in general and Virginia R.
Sear's optical pleasures with those of Eblis Eierkopf, to learn how prevalent such tastes were among well-educated humans.
So if there really was a GILES, as Eblis claims, and if Virginia Hector really received it, as you say she claims, then it didn't work.
She announced then, as one might read from a page: "Max never would, and Eblis couldn't've if I'd wanted him to.
Your Grandpa Reg knew it, too, in his heart -- why else would he fire Eblis and end the Cum Laude Project?
Considering Eblis Eierkopf's role in the Cum Laude Project and past affiliation with Bonifacism, he'd adjudged it an unbearable risk that his own daughter might have given birth to another Kollegiumführer.
Max was got rid of, the Cum Laude Project quietly scrapped, and Eblis Eierkopf demoted to less sensitive researches.
Max, Leonid, Anastasia, Peter Greene, the Sears, Croaker, Chancellor Rexford -- and for aught I knew, Eblis Eierkopf, the brothers Hector, and Classmate X -- all seemed to agree now that they had been flunked, Bray's Certification to the contrary notwithstanding, even as in my ignorance I had declared -- and that Stoker had been less so, or less truly aspirant to that condition, than he'd claimed to be.
Why do you think he told you to get me instead of somebody useful, like Eblis Eierkopf?
A flutter of blackbirds from the Belfry reminded me of Eblis Eierkopf.