AB’ARIS, to whom Apollo gave a golden arrow, on which to ride through the air.—­See Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.

ABBAD’ONA, once the friend of Ab’diel, was drawn into the rebellion of Satan half unwillingly.  In hell he constantly bewailed his fall, and reproved Satan for his pride and blasphemy.  He openly declared to the internals that he would take no part or lot in Satan’s scheme for the death of the Messiah, and during the crucifixion lingered about the cross with repentance, hope, and fear.  His ultimate fate we are not told, but when Satan and Adramelech are driven back to hell, Obaddon, the angel of death, says—­

“For thee, Abbadona, I have no orders.  How long thou art permitted to remain on earth I know not, nor whether thou wilt be allowed to see the resurrection of the Lord of glory ... but be not deceived, thou canst not view Him with the joy of the redeemed.”  “Yet let me see Him, let me see him!”—­Klopstock, The Messiah, xiii.

ABBERVILLE (Lord), a young nobleman, 23 years of age, who has for travelling tutor a Welshman of 65, called Dr. Druid, an antiquary, wholly ignorant of his real duties as a guide of youth.  The young man runs wantonly wild, squanders his money, and gives loose to his passions almost to the verge of ruin, but he is arrested and reclaimed by his honest Scotch bailiff or financier, and the vigilance of his father’s executor, Mr. Mortimer.  This “fashionable lover” promises marriage to a vulgar, malicious city minx named Lucinda Bridgemore, but is saved from this pitfall also.—­Cumberland, The Fashionable Lover (1780).

ABBOT (The), the complacent churchman in Aldrich’s poem of The Jew’s Gift, who hanged a Jew “just for no crime,” and pondered and smiled and gave consent to the heretic’s burial—­

“Since he gave his beard to the birds.” (1881.)

ABDAL-AZIS, the Moorish governor of Spain after the overthrow of king Roderick.  When the Moor assumed regal state and affected Gothic sovereignty, his subjects were so offended that they revolted and murdered him.  He married Egilona, formerly the wife of Roderick.—­ Southey, Roderick, etc., xxii. (1814).

AB’DALAZ’IZ (Omar ben), a caliph raised to “Mahomet’s bosom” in reward of his great abstinence and self-denial.—­Herbelot, 690.

He was by no means scrupulous; nor did he think with the caliph Omar ben Abdalaziz that it was necessary to make a hell of this world to enjoy paradise in the next.—­W.  Beckford, Vathek (1786).

ABDAL’DAR, one of the magicians in the Domdaniel caverns, “under the roots of the ocean.”  These spirits were destined to be destroyed by one of the race of Hodei’rah (3 syl.), so they persecuted the race even to death.  Only one survived, named Thal’aba, and Abdaldar was appointed by lot to find him out and kill him.  He discovered the stripling in an Arab’s tent, and while in prayer was about to stab him to the heart with a dagger, when the angel of death breathed on him, and he fell dead with the dagger in his hand.  Thalaba drew from the magician’s finger a ring which gave him command over the spirits.  —­Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer, ii. iii. (1797).