1894 Brewer’s / A / Abdiel
The faithful seraph who withstood Satan when he urged the angels to revolt. (See Paradise Lost, Bk. v., lines 896, etc.)
“[He] adheres, with the faith of Abdiel, to the ancient form of adoration.”—Sir W. Scott.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.