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Evil spirit (Var.)
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daemon
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Etymology 1 n. (context uncommon English) (alternative form of demon English) Etymology 2 n. (context computing Unix English) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demon \De"mon\, n. [F. d['e]mon, L. daemon a spirit, an evil spirit, fr. Gr. dai`mwn a divinity; of uncertain origin.] (Gr. Antiq.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dæmon is the Latin word for the Ancient Greek daimōn (δαίμων: “god”, “godlike”, “power”, “fate”) which refers to the daemons of ancient Greek religion and mythology ; and of Hellenistic religion and philosophy .
Usage examples of daemon.
Flemish house of Balthasar Claes, in the Rue de Paris at Douai, is haunted by a daemon more potent than that of Canidia.
Farder Coram and Lyra exchanged a look of alarm and wonderment, but only for a second, and then Farder Coram was hobbling out on his sticks as fast as he could manage, with his daemon padding ahead of him.
It stands within an ancient temple, a portal enwreathed in winged serpents, daemons or minor gods.
Therein walk only daemons and mad things that are no longer men, and the streets are white with the unburied bones of those who have looked upon the eidolon Lathi, that reigns over the city.
His dazed eyes caught glimpses of another world, an evil megacosm where gods and daemons lived, where wickedness was a way of life, where the humans trapped in that cosmos were tormented beyond endurance every moment of their lives.
DAEMON: Woman, thou hast subdued me, Only by not owning thyself subdued.
Demon pricked his ears and lunged to the right toward a lone old oak tree, almost throwing Daemon from the saddle.
Daemon wanted to say something light and cheerful to take away the look in her eyes, but there was something about the way the stallion suddenly twitched his ears and seemed to be listening to them that pricked his nerves.
This is where the Shikar live when they are not at the Gates or in the Territories, fighting the Daemon threat.
Their wings of braided air: The Daemon leaning from the ethereal car Gazed on the slumbering maid.
For a moment, Daemon feared Wace would have to bring the man a towel and oil cloth.
Disposal of hacked-up avatars is taken care of by Graveyard Daemons, a new Metaverse feature that Hiro had to invent.
He knew, however, that no beings as nearly human as these would dare approach the ultimate nighted throne of the daemon Azathoth in the formless central void.
Daemon clamped his teeth together in order to keep a wonderfully pithy response from escaping.
But soon, the guardian angel gone, The daemon reassumed his throne In my faint heart.