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Mephistophʹeles, Mephistophʹilis, Mephostophʹilus

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A sneering, jeering, leering tempter. The character is that of a devil in Goethe’s Faust. He is next in rank to Satan.

 

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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.

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Menie
Menippos
Mennonites
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