daemon
[dee-muh n]
noun
Classical Mythology.
- a god.
- a subordinate deity, as the genius of a place or a person's attendant spirit.
a demon.
Also daimon.
Origin of daemon
< Latin daemōn a spirit, an evil spirit < Greek daímōn a deity, fate, fortune; compare daíesthai to distribute
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Related Words for daemon
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Contemporary Examples of daemon
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Historical Examples of daemon
"The daemon has been close to me too," said the son as he blew on the spark he had struck.
Serapis, CompleteGeorg Ebers
Suddenly the moment had come when the daemon wakes and begins to range.
Trent's Last CaseE.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
Guidance of Daemon does not interfere with responsibility, iii.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4Plotinos (Plotinus)
So that a man was to understand by Daemon, as well (sometimes) an Ague, as a Divell.
LeviathanThomas Hobbes
Not even for that Divinity or Daemon for which we all immolate so much!
ConingsbyBenjamin Disraeli
daemon
daimon
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