Brewer's: Mephistopheles, Mephistophilis, Mephostophilus

A sneering, jeering, leering tempter. The character is that of a devil in Goethe's Faust. He is next in rank to Satan.

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