tempter

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TEMPT'ER, noun One that solicits or entices to evil. Those who are bent to do wickedly, will never want tempters to urge them on. 1. The great adversary of man; the devil. Matthew 4:3.
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