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1. 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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2. Lucifer
   In Christian theology, another name for the devil, the leader...
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3. Lucifer
   Angel of light. Sometimes considered a synonym for Satan.
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4. 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 metaph...
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5. 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 under...
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6. 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 kin...
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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'...
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12. 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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13. Lucifer
    Lucifer (or in Greek, Phosphoros, both meaning light-bearer) was a name anciently given to the planet Venus as the morning star.
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14. Lucifer
    Lucifer is a term used figuratively by Isaiah in the Bible and applied to the Babylonian king, but it was mistaken by the commentators for a reference to Satan.
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15. Lucifer
    In Christian theology, another name for the devil, the leader of the angels who rebelled against God. In Greek mythology, Lucifer is another name for the morning star (the planet Venus)
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16. lucifer
    a match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction. First manufactured in the 1830's.
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17. lucifer
    mid-19th century brand name for friction matches. Also 'Lucifers'.
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18. Lucifer
    Traditionally, `Lucifer` () is a name that in English generally refers to the devil before being cast from heaven, although this is not the original meaning of the term. In Latin, from which the English word is derived, Lucifer means "light-bearer" (from the words lucem ferre...
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19. Lucifer
    (Marvel Comics) `Lucifer` is the name of two unrelated comic book characters from Marvel Comics. One is an alien supervillain of the X-Men and the other is a villain of Ghost Rider and is referred to as the Prince of Darkness. Lucifer (Quists): image= --> `Lucifer` is a fictional character, a...
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20. Lucifer
    (DC Comics) `Lucifer` is a DC Comics character that starred in an eponymous comic book published under the Vertigo imprint, whose entire run was written by Mike Carey. Though various depictions of Lucifer — the Biblical fallen angel and devil of the Abrahamic religions — h...
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21. Lucifer
    (cipher) In cryptography, `Lucifer` was the name given to several of the earliest civilian block ciphers, developed by Horst Feistel and his colleagues at IBM. Lucifer was a direct precursor to the Data Encryption Standard. One version, alternatively named `DTD-1`, saw commercial use in the 1...
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22. Lucifer
    (prawn) `Lucifer` is a little-known and degenerate genus of prawns, the only genus in the journal = Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume = Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title = A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author=Sammy De Grave, N. Dea...
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23. Lucifer
    (Battlestar Galactica) `Lucifer` is a fictional character from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series. Lucifer is the robot assistant to Count Baltar, voiced by Jonathan Harris of Lost in Space fame. An IL series Cylon, Lucifer has a transparent pointed head, often wear...
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24. Lucifer
    (magazine) : This article is about the Theosophical publication. For the anarchist journal, see Lucifer the Lightbearer `Lucifer` was a journal published by Helena Blavatsky. The first edition was issued in September 1887 in London. History: The journal was first published by Blavatsky...
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