a. rare. [f. YOKE sb. + -LESS. Used as a rendering of L. absque jugo ‘without yoke,’ the interpretation given by Jerome of Heb. b’li-yasal BELIAL, as b’li without + sōl yoke.] Without a yoke; fig. not under subjection or restraint, unrestrained, dissolute.
1596. Lodge, Divel Coniured (Hunter. Cl.), 21. He is likewise called Sathan, because an aduersary:… and Belial, because yoakles.
1641. Trappe, Theol. Theol., iv. 180. These Yokelesse Belialists snuffe at it as over-strict.
1675. T. Brooks, Gold. Key, Wks. 1867, V. 464. Brainless fellows, light and empty, yokeless and masterless persons.
1680. C. Nesse, Church Hist., 104. Those men of Belial or, as the word signifies, yokeless ones.
