Word Meanings - DEMON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham. 2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. 3. An evil spirit; a devil. That

Additional info about word: DEMON

A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham. 2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. 3. An evil spirit; a devil. That same demon that hath gulled thee thus. Shak. (more info) Gr.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEMON)

• Devil
• Satan
• lucifer
• fiend
• archfiend
• foul fiend
• demon

Related words: (words related to DEMON)

• LUCIFERIAN
  1. Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish. 2. Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader.
• DEMONIC
  Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac. "Demonic ambushes." Lowell.
• DEMONSTRABLY
  In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly. Cases that demonstrably concerned the public cause. Clarendon.
• DEMONRY
  Demoniacal influence or possession. J. Baillie.
• DEMONIASM
  See DEMONIANISM
• LUCIFEROUSLY
  In a luciferous manner.
• DEMON
  A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham. 2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. 3. An evil spirit; a devil. That
• DEVILET
  A little devil. Barham.
• DEVILESS
  A she-devil. Sterne.
• DEVILISM
  The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils. Bp. Hall.
• DEMONIAC
  One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved. (more info) 1. A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon. The demoniac in the gospel was
• DEVILISH
  1. Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. "Devilish wickedness." Sir P. Sidney. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15. 2. Extreme; excessive.
• DEMONOLOGIC; DEMONOLOGICAL
  Of or Pertaining to demonology.
• DEMONSTRATER
  See DEMONSTRATOR
• DEVILFISH
  A huge ray of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera. A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus. The gray whale
• DEMONESS
  A female demon.
• DEMONIAN
  Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon. "Demonian spirits." Milton.
• DEMONIACISM
  The state of being demoniac, or the practices of demoniacs.
• LUCIFER
  A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages. (more info) 1. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. How art thou fallen from heaven,
• DEVILWOOD
  A kind of tree , allied to the European olive.
• VAUDEVILLE
  where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th century, composed such 1. A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
• SWINGDEVIL
  The European swift.
• WATER DEVIL
  The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.