Proper noun
The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
- Synonyms
- the angel of deathAzraelthe Grim Reaperthe reaperthe pale riderthe riderpsychopompSanta Muertethe Shinigami
- Related words
- La Calavera CatrinaHades
- Examples
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Death can be seen on a tarot card.
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7 And when hee had opened the fourth seale, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sate on him was Death, and hell followed with him: and power was giuen vnto them, ouer the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, & with hunger, and with death, and with the beastes of the earth.
Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!
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He had drunk more than was fit for him, and he was singing some light song, when he saw approaching, as he said, the pale horse mentioned in the Revelation, with Death seated as the rider.
A surname.