ETYMOLOGY
from Belial, the spirit of evil personified;
used from early times as a name for the Devil or one of the fiends, and by Milton as the name of one of the fallen angels
EXAMPLE
“… Semey stones and stokkes and myre on Dauid kest;
The Sinagoge spittinges and thornes & buffets on Crist fest.
Semey callid Dauid “man of Belial” and “manquhellere:
The Synagoge Crist “a wyche, gyloute and mysdoete”. …”
From: The Mirour of Mans Saluacioun:
a Middle English translation of Speculum humanae salvationis : a critical edition of the fifteenth-century manuscript illustrated from Der Spiegel der menschen Behältnis, Speyer, Drach, c1429
Edited by Avril Henry, Scolar Press edition, 1986
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