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Definition of Cloven foot
1. Noun. The mark of Satan.
2. Noun. A hoof divided into two parts at its distal extremity (as of ruminants or swine).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloven Foot
Literary usage of Cloven foot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1840)
"Some would-be wise people, our historian affirms, have endeavored to make divers
improvements upon this doctrine of the cloven foot, treating it as ..."
2. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1851)
"... more than ever, have shown the cloven foot of rank Jacobinism. BAYARD TO HAMILTON.
DEAR SIR: WASHINGTON, 8th March, 1801. I left Washington on the 5th ..."
3. Observations on Popular Antiquities: Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's by John Brand, Henry Bourne (1777)
"... Their Opinions of Spirits and Apparitions ; of the Devil's appearing -with a
cloven Foot ^ of Fairies and Hobgoblins; of the "walking Places of Spirits; ..."
4. Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases by James Main Dixon (1891)
"The cloven foot—one of time marks of time devil. To display time cloven foot is
to betray an evil purpose. C. At a subsequent meeting he (Dr. Ritchie) had ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1859)
"How has a cloven foot become an emblem of evil? Thus Satan is pictured with cloven
feet ; and in the old altar-piece formerly exhibited in ..."
6. The Exploits of Myles Standish by Henry Johnson (1897)
"... Massachusetts Queen—A flirtation with Indian squaws— Commercial enthusiasm of
women—Squanto shows the cloven foot—Squanto invents another fairy tale, ..."
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