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Jove (1 syl.)

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(See Jupiter.) The Titans made war against Jove, and tried to dethrone him.

“Not stronger were of old the giant crew,

Who sought to pull high Jove from regal state.”

Thomson: Castle of Indolence, canto 1.

Milton, in Paradise Lost, makes Jove one of the fallen angels (i. 512).

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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.