[ARCH- 2.] A chief or leader of fiends; Satan.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., I. 209. So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay.

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a. 1711.  Ken, Poet. Wks., 1721, I. 115. Each of the curst Arch-fiends their Legions led.

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1796.  Southey, To Penates, Wks. II. 279. Shrinks like the Arch-Fiend at Ithuriel’s spear.

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1872.  H. Macmillan, True Vine, vii. 295. A fallen spirit, an archangel become an archfiend.

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