Word Meanings - DEMONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac. "Demonic ambushes." Lowell.

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• 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
• 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
• 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
• DEMONOLOGIC; DEMONOLOGICAL
  Of or Pertaining to demonology.
• DEMONSTRATER
  See DEMONSTRATOR
• 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.
• DEMONSTRATOR
  A teacher of practical anatomy. (more info) 1. One who demonstrates; one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence.
• DEMONETIZE
  To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.
• DEMONIAC; DEMONIACAL
  1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices. Sarcastic, demoniacal laughter. Thackeray. 2. Influenced or produced by a demon or evil spirit; as, demoniac or demoniacal power.
• DEMONSTRABILITY
  The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.
• DEMONSTRABLE
  1. Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question. The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry. Glanvill. 2. Proved; apparent. Shak.
• DEMONSTRATORY
  Tending to demonstrate; demonstrative. Johnson.
• DEMONSTRATIVENESS
  The state or quality of being demonstrative.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DEMONSTRANCE
  Demonstration; proof. Holland.
• CACODEMON
  The nightmare. Dunaglison. (more info) 1. An evil spirit; a devil or demon. Shak.
• EUDEMONISTICAL; EUDAEMONISTICAL
  Eudemonistic.