Well, as it turns out, they are linked to the same secret society, a diabolist cult. From Wordnik.com. [Missing Persons : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Long after his death in 1947, the diabolist attracted even bigger followers than Hubbard, who founded Scientology in 1954. From Wordnik.com. [Scientology: a Satanic link?] Reference
Then, there are gratuitous horror elements thrown in and just as abruptly swept offstage, like the suggestion that one of the characters, badly mutilated by the fire, will emerge in the future as a "brilliant diabolist.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-18] Reference
When Miss Vaughan states that Dr Westcott is a Palladist, a diabolist, a worshipper of. From Wordnik.com. [Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer] Reference
He was a shameless self publicist, a fraud and a charlatan, but he was also an educated, intelligent and willful diabolist. From Wordnik.com. [Anglican Mainstream] Reference
I suggest a series of articles pointing out how dreary, how inhuman, how downright diabolist, is the very smell and atmosphere of some of these great houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference
With an inhibitive gesture to my friend, "Mr. Soames," I said emphatically to the devil, "is a Catholic diabolist"; but my poor friend did the devil's bidding, not mine; and now, with his master's eyes again fixed on him, he arose, he shuffled past me. From Wordnik.com. [Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties] Reference
151 Aleister Crowley, English diabolist; Hemingway later salvaged the anecdote about him in A Moveable Feast. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Letters] Reference
I didn't want to worry you about it, especially after the blowup, but -- Well, carry on, and don't forget, we keep a pretty good tax diabolist on retainer. ". From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
I should like to suggest that it is Machiavelli's juxtaposition of the two outlooks — the two incompatible moral worlds, as it were — in the minds of his readers, and the collision and acute discomfort that follow that, over the years, has been responsible for the desperate efforts to interpret his doctrines away, to represent him as a cynical and therefore ultimately shallow defender of power politics; or as a diabolist; or as a patriot prescribing for particularly desperate situations which seldom arise; or as a mere time server; or as an embittered political failure; or as a mere mouthpiece of truths we have always known but did not like to utter; or again as the enlightened translator of universally accepted ancient social principles into empirical terms; or as a crypto-republican satirist (a descendant of Juvenal, a forerunner of Orwell); or as a cold scientist, a mere political technologist free from moral implications; or as a typical Renaissance publicist practicing a now obsol. From Wordnik.com. [A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli] Reference
A diabolist. ". From Wordnik.com. [Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties] Reference
I am a Catholic diabolist. ". From Wordnik.com. [Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties] Reference
"A Catholic diabolist," said Soames. From Wordnik.com. [Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties] Reference
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