Sa"tan (?), n. [Heb. satan an adversary, fr. satan to be adverse, to persecute: cf. GR. , , L. Satan, Satanas.]

The grand adversary of man; The Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend.

I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke x. 18.

 

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