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Zephon

[scarcher of secrets]. The cherub despatched by Gabriel to find Satan, after his flight from hell. Ithuriel goes with him. (Milton: Paradise Lost, iv. 788-796.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Zephyr
Zenith, Nadir
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