- a variation of Ahithophel.
Achitophel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Borrowing from Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, for example, the Prime Minister has scoffed at Thatcher in the Commons as "Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long."
From Time Magazine Archive
Three other satires followed Absalom and Achitophel, one of them hardly inferior in point of literary power.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
The poem is largely an attack upon the Earl of Shaftesbury, who in it bears the title of Achitophel.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
Achitophel before his Eyes could ope, Dreamt of an Ephod, Mitre, and a Cope.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Harold Whitmore Jones
We must not run into elongated criticism, however excellent, in a Supplement—and therefore gladden you all with a specimen—without note or comment—from the second part of Absalom and Achitophel.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
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