devilled
adj1
Grilled with a piquant sauce.
2
Uncommon Possessed by the Devil.
- "Vexed with a devil;" she is devilled, that is, fully possessed.a. 1661, Samuel Rutherford, “Sermon V”, in Thomas Napier Thomson, editor, The Trial and Triumph of Faith, published 1845, page 58:
- But the vials of his wrath were not only poured out on the Papacy, to which repeatedly, even the night before his death he swore undying hatred, but on all who rejected his dogmatic utterances or opposed his imperious will. "Zwingli has become a pagan, Oecolampadius, Carlstadt and the remaining heretics have in-devilled, through-devilled, over-devilled blasphemous hearts and lying mouths, and no one should pray for them. […]"1905 October 23, “The Reformers and the Persecution of Heretics”, in The Messenger, volume XLIV, number 4, pages 11–12:
- Derived terms
- devilled crab, devilled egg, devilled ham, devilled kidneys, devilled sausages