مُذْهِبٌ
1.
A gilder. (S.)
2.
المُذْهَبُ, explained by Lth as the name of (assumed tropical:) A certain devil, said to be of the offspring of Iblees, who tempts reciters of the Qur'an in the performance of [the ablution termed] الوُضُوْء, (K, * TA,) and on other occasions, (TA,) is [said to be] correctly [المُذْهِبُ,] with kesr to the ه: (K:) applied to the devil, (TA in article شيط,) as meaning (assumed tropical:) he who embellishes, or renders goodly in appearance, acts of disobedience [to God], as also المُهَذِّبُ, (Fr, TA in article هذب,) IDrd thinks that it is not [genuine] Arabic. (TA.) And according to the S and El-Kurtubee and many others,
بِهِ مُذْهَبٌ means (assumed tropical:) [In him is] a vain suggestion [of the devil] respecting the water, and [respecting] the using much thereof in the
وُضُوْء: [i. e. a vain suggestion that may induce him to think that the water is unfit, or deficient in quantity, or the like:] but according to the K, it is correctly المُذْهِبُ. (TA.) Az says that the people of Baghdád apply the appellation مُذْهِبٌ to (assumed tropical:) A man who inspires vain suggestions; and that the vulgar among them pronounce it
مُذْهَبٌ. (TA.)