Word Meanings - DEMONSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of a demon. Mede.

Related words: (words related to DEMONSHIP)

• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• 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.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• 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
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• 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.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• DEMONETIZE
  To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.
• STATESWOMAN
  A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
• STATESMANLY
  Becoming a statesman.
• STATESMAN
  1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• BICOSTATE
  Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
• TRIPLICOSTATE
  Three-ribbed.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• DEVASTATE
  To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.