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One of a wicked disposition; a companion of the wicked. (See Judges xix. 22.)
“Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial, they knew not the Lord.”—1 Samuel ii. 12.
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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.