Look up: Lucifer

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   Lucifer
   the planet Venus as the 'Morning Star'. Lucifer is the symbol of purity and wisdom, and not of the devil; the alter-ego and 'better half ' of the earth.
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   Lucifer
   In Christian theology, another name for the devil, the leader...
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   Lucifer
   Angel of light. Sometimes considered a synonym for Satan.
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   Lucifer
   Lu'ci·fer noun [ Latin , bringing light, noun , the morning star, from lux , lucis , light + ferre to bring.] 1. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. « How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer , son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground which d ...
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   lucifer
   1. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. 'How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations !' (Is. Xiv. 12) 'Tertullian and Gregory the Great understood this passage of Isaiah in reference to the f ...
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   Lucifer
   `Lucifer` is a Latin word meaning `light-bearer` (from `lux, lucis`, `light`, and `ferre`, `to bear, bring`), a Roman astrological term for the ``Morning Star`` the planet Venus., `Son of Dawn`), used by Jerome in the Vulgate, having mythologically the same meaning as Prometheus who brought fire to humanity. Passage 14:12 from the Book of Isaiah (see below) referred to one of the popular honorific titles of a Babylonian king; however, later int...
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   Lucifer
   • (n.) Hence, Satan. • (n.) A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco. • (n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. • (n.) A genus of free-swimming...
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   Lucifer
   (from the article `Benoit, Peter`) ...(1877), which evoked historical events in Antwerp; the operas Het dorp in`t gebergte (1857; `The Mountain Village`) and Pompeja (1895); the ...
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   Lucifer
   (from the article `Vondel, Joost van den`) ...Gebroeders, an Old Testament tragedy of the same year, is the first of his plays on the Greek model; they include Jeptha (1659) and his greatest ...
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    Lucifer
    in classical mythology, the morning star (i.e., the planet Venus at dawn); personified as a male figure bearing a torch, Lucifer had almost no ...
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    Lucifer
    bishop of Cagliari, Sardinia, who was a fierce opponent of the heresy of Arianism (q.v.). To further his rigorously orthodox views, he founded the ...
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    Lucifer
    Lucifer 1. The morning star; the planet Venus when she appears in the sky before sunrise. 2. The rebel archangel whose fall from heaven was supposed to be referred to in Isaiah xiv. 12 (in the Old Testament Bible); Satan, the Devil. 3. Literally, 'light-bearing', 'light-bringer', or 'bringing light'. In Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions; chief spi...
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    Lucifer
    Lucifer (lOO'sifur) [Lat.,=light-bearing], in Christian tradition a name for Satan. In the Vulgate, Lucifer served as a translation of the Hebrew epithet meaning “Day Star,” a name associated with the presumptuous King of Babylon in the Book of Isaiah. Some early Christian writers fo...
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