Abdael (2 syl.)
. “Brave Abdael oʹer the prophetsʹ school was placed:
Abdael, with all his father’s virtues graced …
Without one Hebrew’s blood, restored the crown.”
⁂ Tate’s blunder for Abdiel (q.v.).
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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.