(n.) The grand adversary of man; the Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend.
Example Sentences:
(1) Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), an outfit that previously operated under the banner of iEngage until controversy forced a rebrand , has decided that the worst it can say about Tell MAMA, the best means it can find of turning it into a satanic organisation, is to say that it associates with gays and Jews.
(2) And when the international community shouts selectively about human rights it encourages conservatives to feel that they are being hectored again by “ Little Satan ” Britain or “Great Satan” America.
(3) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(4) His controversial 1988 book The Satanic Verses, which provoked a religious opinion or fatwa, from the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini calling for the author's killing as punishment for blasphemy, is still banned in India.
(5) The conciliatory language marked a radical change from the presidency of his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and a break from tradition dating to the 1979 revolution of referring to the US as the "Great Satan".
(6) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
(7) And unfortunately, the terrorists and the mainstream share a lot of these bad ideas.” The British Indian author Salman Rushdie, who was placed under a fatwa in 1989 following the publication of his book The Satanic Verses, said there had been “a deadly mutation in the middle of Islam”.
(8) What the mixed responses pointed to was that, right from the start, The Satanic Verses affair was less a theological dispute than an opportunity to exert political leverage.
(9) So soon afterwards, here was their new leader telling them they had made a cataclysmic error: far from divine, Stalin was satanic.
(10) vale (@r4ulsonfeels) IM GOING TO SELL MY SOUL TO SATAN FOR GILLIAN AS THE FIRST FEMALE BOND HAPPEN May 21, 2016 charlotte✨ (@bensonscully) @GillianA OK BUT ALSO IDRIS ELBA CAN BE JAMES BOND AND YOU CAN BE JANE BOND AND YOU CAN SLAY EVERYONE May 21, 2016 Kelley Sublett (@Kel_Sub) @felishacarolle And now that someone has put the idea out there...GIVE ME A FEMALE BOND STAT!
(11) Unorthodox sexual behavior, such as "fisting," has increased in frequency, as has sexual violence related to cults, such as satanism.
(12) At last year’s 36th anniversary of the taking of the embassy hostages, which featured criticism of the Rouhani administration as well as denunciations of the United States as the “Great Satan”, Raeisi announced that the intelligence and security forces had “identified and cracked down on a network of penetration in media and cyberspace, and detained spies and writers hired by Americans”.
(13) When I raped women I felt the spirit of Satan within me," he says.
(14) The women are being controlled by "the global government", they say, who ultimately are themselves controlled "by Satan".
(15) Thirty-seven adult dissociative disorder patients who reported ritual abuse in childhood by satanic cults are described.
(16) The Satanic Temple is a satirical group that opposes religious displays and activity on government property and public schools.
(17) An outright failure of the talks would strengthen the position of conservative hardliners in Iran's clerical establishment against Rouhani, who has tried to improve relations with the country once termed the "great Satan".
(18) The Voluptuous Horror ... are purported to be converts to a movement known as "anti-naturalism" and they've got an album bearing that phrase, but they don't sound especially transgressive or perverse, which is fine – just think of their music as a way in, an access point, to an art netherworld so out-there it prompted one onlooker to hail the band's live extravaganza as "an unholy stage show of such immense countercultural gravity that I just want to scream 'Hail Satan' at the top of my lungs".
(19) Note the speed with which a delegation of 20 imams visited the Charlie Hebdo offices , branding the gunmen “criminals, barbarians, satans” and, crucially, “not Muslims”.
(20) And my mind turned again to Michael Gove , who, to put their relationship in terms of Gove’s beloved Dennis Wheatley, is the supplicant Simon Aron to Boris’s satanic Mocata, their joint prize the mummified phallus of Conservative party power.
Warlock
Definition:
(n.) A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hunters have a double jump, Titans get a jet-pack while warlocks have a glide move, which Bakken describes as, “a more parabolic jet pack”.
(2) < Dragon queen ... Daenerys and fire-breathing pet h2> Dragons, warlocks But forget about Drogo – he died in season one, leaving the Khaleesi to a) hatch her ancestral dragon eggs; b) set her new fire-breathing dragons on a warlock who wanted to mess with her mind; and c) plan a return to King's Landing to claim what's hers and, you'd suspect, submit her rivals to dragon fire.
(3) When the game starts, each participant gets to choose from three different character classes: hunters, warlocks and titans.
(4) Players are also able to intricately personalise their characters – which come in three classes: warriors, warlocks and titans – fine-tuning their special abilities and unlocking exotic clothing, weapons and armour.
(5) That same year, here in Britain, Terence Fisher's The Devil Rides Out portrayed comparable fears, the young becoming the hypnotised prey of a warlock of a certain age.
(6) Also, it's possible for you to roll three active characters, one of each class, so you may well find a nice little warlock item when you're playing as a titan – and that's fine, it isn't wasted.
(7) "So you can say, 'great, when I roll a warlock I'm absolutely going to use this' and into the vault it goes.
(8) There’s the Titan (the character that looks and plays closest to Halo’s protagonist space marine, Master Chief), the Hunter (the class that combines weapons proficiency with space magic) and the Warlock, the mage of the group.
(9) Warlocks, meanwhile, produce the Nova Bomb, an area-of-effect mega-blast that scatters groups of aliens like bowling pins; or there's Radiance, a sort of buff power that enhances the stats of the entire fire team for a limited period.
(10) Each Guardian will be equally deadly - whether they’re a human survivor from Earth, an other-worldly Awoken of mysterious origins, or an EXO war machine that has been built to protect humanity.” In terms of character classes, there are currently three options: the meaty titans, the more-tactical hunters and the warlocks, effectively a futuristic take on fantasy RPG magic users.
(11) The bookshelves are crammed with titles that rather suit the burgeoning yellow revolution: Real Change, England in the New Millennium, Reinventing the State – and, for some reason, Wilbur Smith's Warlock.
(12) The melee options are all different too, with titans getting a running shoulder charge, hunters a throwing knife and warlocks a siphon which drains energy.
(13) You may be in a PvsP match and see a warlock using a different grenade than you and pairing that with a different passive ability, perhaps applying damage-over-time effects or health regeneration, and you may say, 'that looks really great I want to try that'.
(14) He was an emaciated, snow-blind wreck, cowering in his Beverly Hills home, in terror of psychic attack from warlocks Bowie apologised many times for his remarks, blaming drugs for bringing him “to the edge of calamity” – but absolutist notions had long haunted his work.
(15) October 31 1989: Two hours in the city of Toronto and already I had been visited by six ghosts, three goblins, a warlock and several witches!
(16) In reality he was an emaciated, snow-blind wreck, cowering in his rented Beverly Hills home in terror of psychic attack from Hollywood warlocks, exorcising an unwelcome demon from his swimming pool.
(17) Weapons are all available to all classes, but, say, a warlock helmet is class-specific so you pick it up and put it in the vault.