cacodemoncacodaemonn.
/kakəʊˈdiːmən/ 1. † b. Medicine. A name for nightmare. New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
a. An evil spirit.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > genius > evil genius
malus genius1538
cacodemon1594
evil genius1688
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. xix. 45 Plato in Cuneo callith the deuyll Cachodemon, that is to vnderstonde knowynge euyll.]
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (1883–4) III. 267 Anie terror, the least illusion in the earth, is a Cacodæmon vnto him.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 144 Leaue the world Thou Cacodemon . View more context for this quotation
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 177 Nor was the Dog a Cacodæmon, But a true Dog.
1728 E. Young Love of Fame ii, in Wks. (1757) I. 95 Poor negroes, thus, to show their burning spite To cacodæmons, say, they're dev'lish white.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 93 To make the pagan divinities hateful, they were stigmatized as cacodæmons.
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1811 in R. Hooper Quincy's Lexicon-medicum (new ed.)
c. transferred. Applied to persons, etc.
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society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > person of bad character
argha1275
noughty packc1520
dunghill1542
land-rat1600
black sheep1640
cacodemon1711
mauvais sujet1793
bad lot1835
badmash1843
rotter1879
wrong 'un1892
wrongo1937
1711 S. Centlivre Mar-plot iv. i. 50 The old Cacademon is gone into that House.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. ii. 23 My miller's thumb—my prince of caco-dæmons—my little mouse.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 420 Untaught by their parents to know better, these little cacodemons, etc.
2. Astrology. The Twelfth House (or Scheme) in a figure of the Heavens, so called from its baleful signification.
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the world > the universe > astrology > judicial astrology > horoscope > [noun] > house
cacodemon1639
eudemon1706
1639 J. Fletcher et al. Bloody Brother iv. ii. sig. G*3v Then Jupiter in the twelve, the Cacodemon.
1721–90 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
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- throw ) in a person's face
- throw ) something in a person's face
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- throw a person under the bus
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