Crossword clues for cacodemon
cacodemon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cacodemon \Cac`o*de"mon\, n. [Gr. ??????????; kako`s bad + ?????? demon: cf. F. cacod['e]mon.]
An evil spirit; a devil or demon.
--Shak.(Med.) The nightmare.
--Dunaglison.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An evil or malevolent spirit. 2 The twelfth astrological House, from which only evil prognostics are alleged to proceed.
WordNet
n : an evil spirit [syn: cacodaemon] [ant: eudemon]
Wikipedia
A cacodemon (or cacodaemon) is an evil spirit or (in the modern sense of the word) a demon. The opposite of a cacodemon is an agathodaemon or eudaemon, a good spirit or angel. The word cacodemon comes through Latin from the Ancient Greek κακοδαίμων kakodaimōn, meaning an "evil spirit," whereas daimon would be a neutral spirit in Greek and Tychodaimon would be a good spirit. In psychology, cacodemonia (or cacodemomania) is a form of insanity in which the patient believes that they are possessed by an evil spirit. The first known occurrence of the word cacodemon dates to 1398. In Shakespeare's Richard III Act 1 Scene 3, Queen Margaret calls Richard a "cacodemon" for his foul deeds and manipulations.
Usage examples of "cacodemon".
He is cacodemon of decay, and it is not the decay of the grass-dropped apple in autumn.
Inside the blockhouse, the noise from the cacodemons was just too loud, not deafening.
Let me put it like this: by comparison, the squalling cacodemons were quiet and melodious.
One way cacodemons like to cause trouble in our world is by fathering babies.
Let me put it like this: by comparison, the squalling cacodemons were quiet and melodious.
Sure enough, maybe thirty seconds later we heard a dreadful cacophony from the cacodemons mounted at each comer of the containment fence.
After they'd screeched for a while, the cacodemons started yelling, "Evacuate the area.
Let me put it like this: by com parison, the squalling cacodemons were quiet and melodious.
One way cacodemons like to cause trouble in our world is by fathering babies.
But look out for the elves called cacodemon, afrite, deev, bogle, dwerger, pigwidgeon and flibbertygibbet - they can be very nasty.
A sorcerer or witch could summon a eudemon, but most of us know so little about demonology that we wouldn't know a eudemon from a cacodemon anyway.