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Definition of Mephistopheles
1. Noun. Evil spirit to whom Faust sold his soul.
Definition of Mephistopheles
1. Proper noun. The Devil to whom Faust sold his soul in the legend. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mephistopheles
Literary usage of Mephistopheles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Faust: Containing the Italian Text, with an English Translation, and the by Charles Gounod, Michel Carré, Jules Barbier (1892)
"mephistopheles. Umph ! The neighborhood is a little shut in, I may say. ...
mephistopheles (a MARTA.) Che lieto non saria Di dare a voi l'anel del' imeneo. ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1887)
"mephistopheles at the Lyceum. MR. IRVING'S reappearance, with renewed subtlety
and power, in the part of Shylock has accentuated in one noteworthy way his ..."
3. Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets by David Masson (1856)
"Satan is an Archangel scheming his future existence; mephistopheles is the modern
... mephistopheles has a distinctly marked physiognomy; Satan has not. ..."
4. The Standard Operas, Their Plots and Their Music by George Putnam Upton (1914)
"As it dies away they reappear, Faust being continually followed by a gray
friar (mephistopheles in disguise), whose identity is disclosed by a motive from ..."
5. Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1879)
"THE name mephistopheles has in it, I think, the priest's shudder at the fumes of
the laboratory. ..."
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