Obs. A word transferred by Wyclif from the Vulgate (after Ἀριὴλ of the LXX, ăriēl of the Heb.), rendered by Coverdale and version of 1611 ‘altar.’
1382. Wyclif, Ezek. xliii. 15, 16. Forsothe the ylk ariel or auter [1388 thilke ariel, that is the hiȝere part of the auter], of foure cubitis, and fro ariel [1388 the auter] vn to above, foure corners.
(Gesenius would here translate ‘fire-hearth of God,’ after Arab. ari; elsewhere in O. T. the same word occurs as a man’s name, and appellation of Jerusalem, where it is taken as = ‘lion of God.’) Ariel in T. Heywood and Milton is the name of an angel, in Shakespeare of ‘an Ayrie spirit’; in Astron. of one of the satellites of Uranus.
