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- noun Plural form of
diabolo .
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The word diabolos, devil, is not applied to these demons.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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The word diabolos, devil, is not applied to these demons.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Also called diabolos (not to be confused with diablos) they're not that common but when you see the things you can do you can understand why the Chinese are totally going to rule the world someday.
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The word "diabolos" was commonly used in the First Century of a person who slandered another, particularly if they slandered a person in such a way that it damaged that person's reputation.
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The term I would use is diabolos - and I would say that Obama is very much like what the diabolical looks like in person.
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And then let their actions and their effects show it - diabolos is as diabolos does, to borrow from the great Forrest Gump.
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Most are thrilling: a couple lift, stretch and contort themselves in slow motion into anatomically-unbelievable positions; four Chinese girls looking about 12 years old spin their diabolos; and other members of the company skip, somersault, tumble and chuck one another high into the air.
Liz suggests 2009
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Gossip is of the devil, it is truly diabolical the word in 1 Timothy 3.3 is diabolos.
Excrement smeared across a church wall Sam Norton 2006
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Ingeniositas invocandi diabolos et diabolas, per M. Guingolphum.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Ingeniositas invocandi diabolos et diabolas, per M. Guingolphum.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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