daemon
Classical Mythology.
a god.
a subordinate deity, as the genius of a place or a person's attendant spirit.
a demon.
Origin of daemon
1- Also daimon.
Other words from daemon
- dae·mon·ic [dih-mon-ik], /dɪˈmɒn ɪk/, dae·mon·is·tic [dee-muh-nis-tik], /ˌdi məˈnɪs tɪk/, adjective
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How to use daemon in a sentence
The Pythagoreans also assert that the whole air is full of souls, and that these are those which are accounted daemons and heroes.
A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) | Henry Smith WilliamsThis is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons.
Siddhartha | Herman HesseWhere is the proof, said I, that daemons may not be subjected to the controul of men?
Wieland; or The Transformation | Charles Brockden BrownBut, through the prayers of Peter, the two daemons who were carrying him aloft let go their hold and so Simon perishes miserably.
Simon Magus | George Robert Stow MeadFor how will obscene things give life, if it were not a conception of daemons?
Simon Magus | George Robert Stow Mead
British Dictionary definitions for daemon
daimon
/ (ˈdiːmən) /
Derived forms of daemon
- daemonic (diːˈmɒnɪk), adjective
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