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& a. [Gr. ̓Απολλύων" ( Apol luôn), the pr. par. of ἀπόλλυμι ( apollumi ), or ἀπολλύω ( apolluō ) = to destroy utterly.] A. As substantive: Destroyer. The Greek name applied in Rev. ix. 11 to the "angel of the bottomle pit," called in Hebrew Abad don (q.v.). Bunyan introduces it into the Pilgrim's Progre as the name of a fiend. B. As adjective : Destructive. "But he [Kant] had no instincts of creation or restoration within his A polly on mind."-De Quincey's Works (ed. 1863), vol. ii., p. 58.