demonicadj.n.

Brit.

/dᵻˈmɒnɪk/,

/diːˈmɒnɪk/, U.S.

/dəˈmɑnɪk/,

/diˈmɑnɪk/

Forms: 1600s daemonick, 1600s–1700s demonick, 1600s– demonic, 1700s– daemonic.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin daemonicus.

Etymology: < classical Latin daemonicus of or belonging to a demon or evil spirit (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian) < Hellenistic Greek δαιμονικός possessed by a demon, of or belonging to a demon < ancient Greek δαιμον- , δαίμων demon n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French démonique (1422 in Middle French; now rare), Spanish (rare) demónico (early 15th cent.), Italian demonico (a1535). Compare earlier demonical adj. and demoniac adj.In sense A. 3 originally after German dämonisch demonish adj. (which is attested in this specific sense from the late 18th cent.).

A. adj.

1. Of or relating to demons or a demon; of the nature of a demon. Also: of, relating to, or caused by demonic possession. Cf. demoniac adj. 1, 2.See note at demonic possession n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [adjective]

foulOE

demoniatc1440

demonicalc1475

demoniaclec1500

demoniacal1565

demoniac1603

demonic1642

demonial1658

demonian1671

pishachi1837

demoniatic1855

demonish1863

1642 Papists Petition in Eng. 3 Our fortunes being as pernicious as Demonick Sproovoyse your Holinesses ropemaker.

1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 68 Convulsive and even Demonic postures.

1686 J. Shirley Illustrious Hist. Women Introd. sig. 7^v The oft Espoused Maid, who at last was free'd from her Dæmonick lover Asmodeus.

1738 G. Smith Curious Relations I. iv. 518 So many Demonick Delusions.

1769 A. Machay Pasquin I. i. 21 Some of the demonic powers were employed in scattering over the globe direful natural evils.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 27 ‘Jötuns’, Giants, huge shaggy beings of a demonic character.

1886 Q. Rev. Oct. 53 The traditional demonic proposal, ‘I will be your servant here, and you shall be mine hereafter’.

1941 Monumenta Nipponica 4 365 The stones of peaches..are scattered about in order to drive out demonic evil.

1956 Folk-lore 67 24 Even where the demonic concept of disease was held without question, rising doubt took the form of some concern for the human host rather than the possessing spirits.

1999 K. Sullivan Interrogation Joan of Arc i. 15 The villagers treated the fairy ladies as a third category of supernatural beings, neither angelic nor demonic.

2. Resembling or characteristic of a demon; devilish, malevolent, evil; (also) crazed, frenzied. Cf. demoniac adj. 3, demoniacal adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective]

litherc893

unledeeOE

evil971

missOE

murkOE

unrighteousOE

unseelyOE

un-i-seliOE

unselec1050

wickc1175

foul-itowenc1225

unwrast?c1225

un-i-felec1275

wickedc1275

wrakefula1350

felonousc1374

unquertc1390

unperfect1395

felona1400

wanc1440

meschant?c1450

sinnyc1475

unselc1480

poison?1527

pernicious?1533

scelerous1534

viperous?1548

improbate1596

scelestious1609

scelestic1628

spider-like1655

dark-hearted1656

demonic1796

nineteda1798

sinful1863

1796 R. Snowden Columbiad vii. 20, in Amer. Revol. (new ed.) Demonic rage first spurr'd the tories on.

1829 I. Hill Holiday Dreams 49 We have had villains all black, frowning, and demonic.

1859 Delaware State Rep. 14 Oct. 1/4 A wild yell of apparent exultation,..chilling in its demonic intonation.

1913 P. H. Goepp Symphonies & their Meaning 3rd Ser. iv. 34 There is a new sullen note, a dull martial trip of drums with demonic growls.

1970 Vogue 15 Mar. 24/1 With shrieks of demonic laughter, the driver ruined the clothes of some fifteen women [by deliberately driving through puddles] in a journey of ten blocks.

1993 Classic CD June 64/4 The peculiar demonic quality of his playing is replaced by a mellowness.

2012 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 Mar. 41/2 Of all of these, Wells's Dr. Moreau is the most demonic, as his transspecies experiments involve hideous physical suffering in helpless animal subjects.

3. Usually in form daemonic. Of or relating to an inner or attendant spirit, esp. as a source of creative inspiration or genius; (also) inspired by such a spirit. Cf. demon n. 7, demoniac adj. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > of the nature of a genius

demonic1796

demoniac1856

1796 W. Tooke tr. C. M. Wieland Private Hist. Peregrinus Proteus II. 371 The strength of that singular sentiment of my dæmonic nature [Ger. meiner dämonischen Natur].

1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 26 491 In his immature youth he had detected within himself a something dæmonic.

1854 J. R. Lowell in Putnam's Monthly Mag. May 479/1 Shall I take Brahmin Alcott's favorite word, and call him a daemonic man?

1879 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 447 There is enough to show the Dæmonic Dickens: as pure an instance of Genius as ever lived.

1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. vii. 258 If they have not the dæmonic virtue of a few great dramatic poets, they have..plentiful substitutes for it.

1920 J. C. Powys Complex Vision 358 A demonic or magnetic force in life which can be drawn upon either for good or for evil.

1989 Mod. Painters Autumn 111/3 One of the great daemonic geniuses of our century who was an architect—Le Corbusier.

B. n.

With the. That which is demonic, the nature or qualities of a demon; demons collectively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun]

evil angel, spiritc950

ghosteOE

uncleanOE

demonOE

devilOE

devilshineOE

groa1225

debleriea1325

devilnessa1400

devilryc1400

sprat?a1475

nicker1481

fiend of hell1509

imp1526

virtue1584

elf1587

succubus1601

blue devilc1616

black man1656

woolsaw1757

buggane1775

bhut1785

demonic1785

pishachi1807

devil-devil1831

skookum1838

taipo1848

lightning bird1870

demonry1883

pisaca1885

mafufunyanas1963

mare1981

1785 J. Pinkerton Lett. of Lit. xxxi. 218 Comparing certain ideas of utter rudeness of human nature, blended with the bestial and demonic.

1862 N. Darnell tr. J. J. I. von Döllinger Gentile & Jew in Courts Temple of Christ II. viii. i. 134 From the frequent confusion of the demonic with the divine, a thorough misunderstanding has arisen.

1922 Bookman Oct. 26/1 His boy-lover in ‘The Princess and the Butterfly’, his French count in ‘The Princess's Nose’, and above all his butler in ‘The Admirable Crichton’, had all something of the demonic in them.

1985 J. Wimber & K. Springer Power Evangelism ii. 29 The expulsion of demons is most dramatic, though power encounters are far from limited only to the demonic.

2000 H. S. Pyper in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 161/2 The desert offers both asylum and threat. Human violence may be evaded by fleeing into its solitudes, but not so the assaults of the demonic.

Compounds

demonic possession n. the state or condition of a person (supposedly) being inhabited and controlled by a demon; an instance of this; cf. possession n. 4.Formerly thought to be the cause of mental illness and of certain physical illnesses, esp. epilepsy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > familiar or possessing spirit > possession by

wood dreameOE

demoniacal possession1601

possession1601

obsession1607

pythonism1654

demoniac possession1698

endiablementa1734

endemoniasm1751

demon possession1838

demonic possession1853

spirit possession1854

bedevilment1861

diabolepsy1886

1853 C. Beecher Rev. ‘Spiritual Manifestations’ ii. 9 All the phenomena of the demonic possession have been permanently established.

1918 G. W. Jacoby Unsound Mind & Law 7 Even at the present time there exists among the ignorant masses a belief in demonic possession as a cause of mental disease.

1985 J. Klaits Servants of Satan v. 111 There have been numerous supposed demonic possessions before and since [the 17th century].

2002 P. A. Murphy Treating Epilepsy Naturally ii. 18 Conventional medicine debunked the theory that epilepsy was due to demonic possession and classified it as a brain disorder.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	demonic
释义	demonicadj.n. Brit. /dᵻˈmɒnɪk/, /diːˈmɒnɪk/, U.S. /dəˈmɑnɪk/, /diˈmɑnɪk/ Forms: 1600s daemonick, 1600s–1700s demonick, 1600s– demonic, 1700s– daemonic. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin daemonicus. Etymology: < classical Latin daemonicus of or belonging to a demon or evil spirit (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian) < Hellenistic Greek δαιμονικός possessed by a demon, of or belonging to a demon < ancient Greek δαιμον- , δαίμων demon n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French démonique (1422 in Middle French; now rare), Spanish (rare) demónico (early 15th cent.), Italian demonico (a1535). Compare earlier demonical adj. and demoniac adj.In sense A. 3 originally after German dämonisch demonish adj. (which is attested in this specific sense from the late 18th cent.). A. adj. 1. Of or relating to demons or a demon; of the nature of a demon. Also: of, relating to, or caused by demonic possession. Cf. demoniac adj. 1, 2.See note at demonic possession n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [adjective] foulOE demoniatc1440 demonicalc1475 demoniaclec1500 demoniacal1565 demoniac1603 demonic1642 demonial1658 demonian1671 pishachi1837 demoniatic1855 demonish1863 1642 Papists Petition in Eng. 3 Our fortunes being as pernicious as Demonick Sproovoyse your Holinesses ropemaker. 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 68 Convulsive and even Demonic postures. 1686 J. Shirley Illustrious Hist. Women Introd. sig. 7^v The oft Espoused Maid, who at last was free'd from her Dæmonick lover Asmodeus. 1738 G. Smith Curious Relations I. iv. 518 So many Demonick Delusions. 1769 A. Machay Pasquin I. i. 21 Some of the demonic powers were employed in scattering over the globe direful natural evils. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 27 ‘Jötuns’, Giants, huge shaggy beings of a demonic character. 1886 Q. Rev. Oct. 53 The traditional demonic proposal, ‘I will be your servant here, and you shall be mine hereafter’. 1941 Monumenta Nipponica 4 365 The stones of peaches..are scattered about in order to drive out demonic evil. 1956 Folk-lore 67 24 Even where the demonic concept of disease was held without question, rising doubt took the form of some concern for the human host rather than the possessing spirits. 1999 K. Sullivan Interrogation Joan of Arc i. 15 The villagers treated the fairy ladies as a third category of supernatural beings, neither angelic nor demonic. 2. Resembling or characteristic of a demon; devilish, malevolent, evil; (also) crazed, frenzied. Cf. demoniac adj. 3, demoniacal adj. 3. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective] litherc893 unledeeOE evil971 missOE murkOE unrighteousOE unseelyOE un-i-seliOE unselec1050 wickc1175 foul-itowenc1225 unwrast?c1225 un-i-felec1275 wickedc1275 wrakefula1350 felonousc1374 unquertc1390 unperfect1395 felona1400 wanc1440 meschant?c1450 sinnyc1475 unselc1480 poison?1527 pernicious?1533 scelerous1534 viperous?1548 improbate1596 scelestious1609 scelestic1628 spider-like1655 dark-hearted1656 demonic1796 nineteda1798 sinful1863 1796 R. Snowden Columbiad vii. 20, in Amer. Revol. (new ed.) Demonic rage first spurr'd the tories on. 1829 I. Hill Holiday Dreams 49 We have had villains all black, frowning, and demonic. 1859 Delaware State Rep. 14 Oct. 1/4 A wild yell of apparent exultation,..chilling in its demonic intonation. 1913 P. H. Goepp Symphonies & their Meaning 3rd Ser. iv. 34 There is a new sullen note, a dull martial trip of drums with demonic growls. 1970 Vogue 15 Mar. 24/1 With shrieks of demonic laughter, the driver ruined the clothes of some fifteen women [by deliberately driving through puddles] in a journey of ten blocks. 1993 Classic CD June 64/4 The peculiar demonic quality of his playing is replaced by a mellowness. 2012 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 Mar. 41/2 Of all of these, Wells's Dr. Moreau is the most demonic, as his transspecies experiments involve hideous physical suffering in helpless animal subjects. 3. Usually in form daemonic. Of or relating to an inner or attendant spirit, esp. as a source of creative inspiration or genius; (also) inspired by such a spirit. Cf. demon n. 7, demoniac adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > of the nature of a genius demonic1796 demoniac1856 1796 W. Tooke tr. C. M. Wieland Private Hist. Peregrinus Proteus II. 371 The strength of that singular sentiment of my dæmonic nature [Ger. meiner dämonischen Natur]. 1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 26 491 In his immature youth he had detected within himself a something dæmonic. 1854 J. R. Lowell in Putnam's Monthly Mag. May 479/1 Shall I take Brahmin Alcott's favorite word, and call him a daemonic man? 1879 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 447 There is enough to show the Dæmonic Dickens: as pure an instance of Genius as ever lived. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. vii. 258 If they have not the dæmonic virtue of a few great dramatic poets, they have..plentiful substitutes for it. 1920 J. C. Powys Complex Vision 358 A demonic or magnetic force in life which can be drawn upon either for good or for evil. 1989 Mod. Painters Autumn 111/3 One of the great daemonic geniuses of our century who was an architect—Le Corbusier. B. n. With the. That which is demonic, the nature or qualities of a demon; demons collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] evil angel, spiritc950 ghosteOE uncleanOE demonOE devilOE devilshineOE groa1225 debleriea1325 devilnessa1400 devilryc1400 sprat?a1475 nicker1481 fiend of hell1509 imp1526 virtue1584 elf1587 succubus1601 blue devilc1616 black man1656 woolsaw1757 buggane1775 bhut1785 demonic1785 pishachi1807 devil-devil1831 skookum1838 taipo1848 lightning bird1870 demonry1883 pisaca1885 mafufunyanas1963 mare1981 1785 J. Pinkerton Lett. of Lit. xxxi. 218 Comparing certain ideas of utter rudeness of human nature, blended with the bestial and demonic. 1862 N. Darnell tr. J. J. I. von Döllinger Gentile & Jew in Courts Temple of Christ II. viii. i. 134 From the frequent confusion of the demonic with the divine, a thorough misunderstanding has arisen. 1922 Bookman Oct. 26/1 His boy-lover in ‘The Princess and the Butterfly’, his French count in ‘The Princess's Nose’, and above all his butler in ‘The Admirable Crichton’, had all something of the demonic in them. 1985 J. Wimber & K. Springer Power Evangelism ii. 29 The expulsion of demons is most dramatic, though power encounters are far from limited only to the demonic. 2000 H. S. Pyper in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 161/2 The desert offers both asylum and threat. Human violence may be evaded by fleeing into its solitudes, but not so the assaults of the demonic. Compounds demonic possession n. the state or condition of a person (supposedly) being inhabited and controlled by a demon; an instance of this; cf. possession n. 4.Formerly thought to be the cause of mental illness and of certain physical illnesses, esp. epilepsy. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > familiar or possessing spirit > possession by wood dreameOE demoniacal possession1601 possession1601 obsession1607 pythonism1654 demoniac possession1698 endiablementa1734 endemoniasm1751 demon possession1838 demonic possession1853 spirit possession1854 bedevilment1861 diabolepsy1886 1853 C. Beecher Rev. ‘Spiritual Manifestations’ ii. 9 All the phenomena of the demonic possession have been permanently established. 1918 G. W. Jacoby Unsound Mind & Law 7 Even at the present time there exists among the ignorant masses a belief in demonic possession as a cause of mental disease. 1985 J. Klaits Servants of Satan v. 111 There have been numerous supposed demonic possessions before and since [the 17th century]. 2002 P. A. Murphy Treating Epilepsy Naturally ii. 18 Conventional medicine debunked the theory that epilepsy was due to demonic possession and classified it as a brain disorder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1642
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