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referred to in
Rev.; one is Obaddon, the angel of death, and the other Abbad'ona, the
repentant devil.
AB'ARIS, to whom Apollo gave a golden arrow, on which to ride
through the air.--See Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
ABBAD'ONA, once the friend of Ab'diel, was drawn into the rebellion
of Satan half unwillingly. In hell he constantly bewailed his fall, and
reproved Satan for his pride and blasphemy. He openly declared to the
internals that he would take no part or lot in Satan's scheme for the
death of the Messiah, and during the crucifixion lingered about the
cross with repentance, hope, and fear. His ultimate fate we are not told,
but when Satan and Adramelech are driven back to hell, Obaddon, the
angel of death, says--
"For thee, Abbadona, I have no orders. How long thou art permitted to
remain on earth I know not, nor whether thou wilt be allowed to see the
resurrection of the Lord of glory ... but be not deceived, thou canst not
view Him with the joy of the redeemed." "Yet let me see Him, let me
see him!"--Klopstock, The Messiah, xiii.
ABBERVILLE (Lord), a young nobleman, 23 years of age, who has for
travelling tutor a Welshman of 65, called Dr. Druid, an antiquary,

wholly ignorant of his real duties as a guide of youth. The young man
runs wantonly wild, squanders his money, and gives loose to his
passions almost to the verge of ruin, but he is arrested and reclaimed by
his honest Scotch bailiff or financier, and the vigilance of his father's
executor, Mr. Mortimer. This "fashionable lover" promises marriage to
a vulgar, malicious city minx named Lucinda Bridgemore, but is saved
from this pitfall also.--Cumberland, _The Fashionable Lover_ (1780).
ABBOT (The), the complacent churchman in Aldrich's poem of _The
Jew's Gift_, who hanged a Jew "just for no crime," and pondered and
smiled and gave consent to the heretic's burial--
"Since he gave his beard to the birds." (1881.)
ABDAL-AZIS, the Moorish governor of Spain after the overthrow of
king Roderick. When the Moor assumed regal state and affected Gothic
sovereignty, his subjects were so offended that they revolted and
murdered him. He married Egilona, formerly the wife of Roderick.--
Southey, Roderick, etc., xxii. (1814).
AB'DALAZ'IZ (Omar ben), a caliph raised to "Mahomet's bosom" in
reward of his great abstinence and self-denial.--Herbelot, 690.
He was by no means scrupulous; nor did he think with the caliph Omar
ben Abdalaziz that it was necessary to make a hell of this world to
enjoy paradise in the next.--W. Beckford, Vathek (1786).
ABDAL'DAR, one of the magicians in the Domdaniel caverns, "under
the roots of the ocean." These spirits were destined to be destroyed by
one of the race of Hodei'rah (3 syl.), so they persecuted the race even to
death. Only one survived, named Thal'aba, and Abdaldar was appointed
by lot to find him out and kill him. He discovered the stripling in an
Arab's tent, and while in prayer was about to stab him to the heart with
a dagger, when the angel of death breathed on him, and he fell dead
with the dagger in his hand. Thalaba drew from the magician's finger a
ring which gave him command over the spirits. --Southey, Thalaba the
Destroyer, ii. iii. (1797).

ABDALLA, one of sir Brian de Bois Guilbert's slaves.--Sir W. Scott,
Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).
Abdal'lah, brother and predecessor of Giaf'fer (2 syl.), pacha of
Aby'dos. He was murdered by the pacha.--Byron, Bride of Abydos.
ABDALLAH EL HADGI, Saladin's envoy.--Sir W. Scott, The
Talisman (time, Richard I.).
ABDALS or Santons, a class of religionists who pretend to be inspired
with the most ravishing raptures of divine love. Regarded with great
veneration by the vulgar.--Olearius, i. 971.
AB'DIEL, the faithful seraph who withstood Satan when he urged those
under him to revolt.
... the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless faithful only
he; Among innumerable false, unmoved. Unshaken, unseduced,
unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal.
Milton, Paradise Lost, v. 896, etc. (1665).
ABELARD and ELOISE, unhappy lovers, whose illicit love was
succeeded by years of penitence and remorse. Abelard was the tutor of
Heloise (or Eloise), and, although vowed to the church, won and
returned her passion. They were violently separated by her uncle.
Abelard entered a monastery and Eloise became a nun. Their love
survived the passage of years, and they were buried together at _Père la
Chaise.--Eloise and Abelard_. By Alexander Pope (1688-1744).
ABENSBERG (Count), the father of thirty-two children. When
Heinrich II. made his progress through Germany, and other courtiers
presented their offerings, the count brought forward his thirty-two
children, "as the most valuable offering he could make to his king and
country."
ABES'SA, the impersonation of abbeys and convents in Spenser's
_Faëry Queen_, i.