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Mephistopheles(dictionary)

Mephistopheles (iou)



Mephistopheles noun. Also (earlier) Mephostophilis, Mephostophilus. L16.
[The evil spirit to whom Faust in German legend sold his soul, esp. as represented in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (c 1590) and Goethe's Faust (1808-32).]
A fiendish person, a person who entraps another to destruction, a fatal tempter.