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Ariel

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A spirit of the air and guardian of innocence. He was enslaved to the witch Sycʹorax, who overtasked him; and in punishment for not doing what was beyond his power, shut him up in a pine-rift for twelve years. On the death of Sycorax, Ariel became the slave of Calʹiban, who tortured him most cruelly. Prosʹpero liberated him from the pinerift, and the grateful fairy served him for sixteen years, when he was set free. (Shakespeare: Tempest.)

Aʹriel. The sylph that watched over Belinda. (Pope: Rape of the Lock, i.)

Aʹriel. One of the angels cast out of heaven. The word means lion of God. (Milton: Paradise Lost, book vi. 371.)

 

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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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Argeo (in Orlando Furioso)
Argillan (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Argo
Argonauts
Argosy
Argot [Argo]
Argus-eyed
Argyle
Arians
Arideus [A-ree-de-us]
Ariel
Aries
Arimanes
Arimaspians
Arioch
Arion
Ariosto
Aristeas
Aristides
Aristippos
Aristocracy

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