The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (191 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
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3755
like-minded
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3757
fearful, terrible
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3759
darkened by ignorance, anger, etc.
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3760
foremost part
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3762
loyalty, devotion, honesty [trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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3763
(Abdiel, not Satan, is trusting in God)
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3764
test, probe
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3766
[second syllable accented]
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3767
wicked, dirty, offensive
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3768
(1) obstruction, obstacle, (2) confrontation
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3769
is Abdiel incensed at Satan? or Satan at Abdiel?
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3771
submerged, buried, completely covered
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3772
(1) course, (2) following
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3774
misguided, mistaken
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3777
principal, great
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3778
(1) sideways, (2) askew, asquint
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3780
(1) assault, (2) test
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3781
(1) free, (2) claim
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3783
result, outcome
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3788
wickedly, basely
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3790
censure, reproach
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3792
heraldic device on the top of his helmet
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3793
violent speed
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3794
injury, damage
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3795
“ten large paces”
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3797
discomfited, overthrown
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3798
[trisyllabic]
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3799
[trisyllabic?]
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3801
in wonder/amazement
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3802
met, now engaged in combat
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3803
made a harsh, clashing sound
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3804
frenzied, turning furiously
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3805
brasslike, brass-hard
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3806
horrible, dreadful
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3807
spears, javelins, arrows
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3812
tumultuous conflagration
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3813
controlled, ruled against
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3814
of such numbers
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3815
split into factions, discordant
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3816
battle lines
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3817
fierce, cruel
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3819
cause, influence, turning point
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3820
mighty, vigorous
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3821
shaking, stirring
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3823
marvelous, amazing
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3825
motion, force
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3827
set in opposition, put in the way
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3830
quantity, degree, proportion
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3831
spiritual/mental peace
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3833
puts up with
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3834
join together
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3840
side, direction
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3842
space, room
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3843
(1) wind, (2) violence
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3844
bearing, relative position
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3845
destroy one another?
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3846
settle/put an end to/decide/resolve
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3848
blocking, parrying
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3851
coiling, twisting
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3853
breaking the organic continuity of Satan’s bodily substance
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3854
fluid, essence
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3857
files of war = rows/ranks of fighters
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3858
outrage, anger
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3862
similar [adjective]
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3863
troops serving under a single ensign/banner/flag
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3865
soon, at once
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3866
unfamiliar, never experienced
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3867
of the army: military formation
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3868
their: i.e., each of them vanquished “his” boasting opponent
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3870
Assyrian sun god
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3871
Asmodeus, the demon in the Apocryphal Book of Tobit: see Book 4, line 168, above
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3872
third of the nine angelic orders
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3873
inferior, lower
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3874
cut, hacked
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3875
“lion of God”
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3876
a Spirit of revenge; Arioch is mentioned in Genesis 14:1 as a “king of Ellasar”
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3877
“exaltation of God”—although in the Apocryphal Book of Enoch, Ramiel’s lustfulness with mortal women causes him to fall from Heaven
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3878
judgment, sentence
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3879
that which is just
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3881
dishonor, disgrace
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3882
fate, destiny
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3886
stuck, stabbed, pierced: i.e., into the rebel ranks
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3888
spiritless, feeble
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3890
attacked, captured
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3891
unable to be violated/broken/injured [five syllables, second and fourth accented]
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3892
close-packed battle array, sixteen-man-deep square, perfected by the Romans
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3894
not exposed/liable
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3896
victorious, dominant
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