devilled en · ADJ
Meanings
- Grilled with a piquant sauce.
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(uncommon) Possessed by the Devil.
But the vials of his wrath were not only poured out on the Papacy, to which repeatedly, even the night before his death he swore undying hatred, but on all who rejected his dogmatic utterances or opposed his imperious will. "Zwingli has become a pagan, Oecolampadius, Carlstadt and the remaining heretics have in-devilled, through-devilled, over-devilled blasphemous hearts and lying mouths, and no one should pray for them. […]"
1905 October 14, “The Reformers and the Persecution of Heretics”, in The Messenger, volume XLIV, number 4, pages 11–12:"Vexed with a devil;" she is devilled, that is, fully possessed.
a. 1661, Samuel Rutherford, “Sermon V”, in Thomas Napier Thomson, editor, The Trial and Triumph of Faith, published 1845, page 58:
Deriveds
devilled sausages · devilled kidneys · devilled egg · devilled crab · devilled ham