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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:

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The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

Columbia Encyclopedia:

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Apollyon (əpŏl'yən) [Gr.,=Destroyer], in the Book of Revelation, name of the angel of the bottomless pit. See Satan; hell.

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The destroying angel or prince of the underworld (Rev. 9:11), synonymous with Abaddon.

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Barrett, Francis. The Magus. 1801. Reprint, New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1967.

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