Apollʹyon
.King of the bottomless pit. (Rev. ix. 11.) His contest with Christian, in Bunyan’s allegory, has made his name familiar. (Greek, the destroyer.)
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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.