Mephistopheles

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim The Devil to whom Faust sold his soul in the legend.

   “I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.”

2. isim A fiendish person, especially one who tricks someone into following a destructive or disastrous course of action; a tempter.

   “Poison in my idle mind makes quick work for the Mephistopheles, / Who quickly makes his excuses”