Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A chief or reigning devil.
- n. computing, Unix A program, or part of a program, which is not invoked explicitly but lies dormant waiting for some event.
Etymologies
- arch- + devil (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Panurge, what archdevil is it that hath possessed this Master”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“The language of Milton's archdevil 'Evil, be thou my good,' is the creed of modern reformers, or, in other words -- anything for a change.”
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
“The language of Milton's archdevil 'Evil, be thou my good,' is the creed of modern reformers, or, in other words -- _anything for a change_.”
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
“But, quoth Panurge, what archdevil is it that hath possessed this Master Raminagrobis, that so unreasonably, and without any occasion, he should have so snappishly and bitterly inveighed against these poor honest fathers, Jacobins, Minors, and Minims?”
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