/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Chemos or Chemosh [Keemosh]
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War-god of the Moabites; god of lust.
“Next, Chemos, the obscene dread of Moab’s sons,
From Arʹoer to Nebo, and the wild
Of southmost Abʹarim.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, book i, 406–8.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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