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David is so called (2 Sam. xvi. 7).
The Puritans applied the term to Charles I., because he made war against his Parliament. Any man of violence.
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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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