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The cherub despatched by Gabriel to find Satan, after his flight from hell. Ithuʹriel goes with him. (Milton: Paradise Lost, iv. 788–796.)
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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.