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Definition of Daemons
1. daemon [n] - See also: daemon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daemons
Literary usage of Daemons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"It was the universal sentiment both of the church and of heretics that the daemons
were the authors, the patrons, and the objects of idolatry.39 Those ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1881)
""It was," says Gibbon, " the universal sentiment both of the Church and of heretics
that the daemons were the authors, the patrons, and the objects of ..."
3. A Dissertation on Miracles: Designed to Shew that They are Arguments of a by Hugh Farmer (1836)
"There has been occasion to observe, that the ancients were of opinion, not only
that wicked human spirits became daemons, but also that those ..."
4. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, Samuel George Chetwynd Middlemore (1904)
"to proceed expressly against some Bolognese Carmelites,1 who asserted in the
pulpit that there was no harm in seeking information from the daemons. ..."
5. History of Greece by George Grote (1854)
"daemons—and therefore, verbally speaking,Clemens and Tatian seemed to affirm ...
His supposition that the daemons were not gods, but departed men of the ..."
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