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Definition of Cacodaemon
1. Noun. An evil spirit.
Geographical relationships: Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic
Generic synonyms: Evil Spirit
Derivative terms: Cacodaemonic, Cacodemonic
Antonyms: Eudemon
Definition of Cacodaemon
1. Noun. Wicked or (malevolent) spirit as opposed to (agathodemon) (a good spirit). ¹
2. Noun. Twelfth (astrological) House, from which only (evil) prognostics are alleged to proceed. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) nightmare ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cacodaemon
Literary usage of Cacodaemon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... afh'nm, cacodaemon ruber dicitur. Adr. .Tun. This designation assimilates him
to the .... larva vel cacodaemon ; (Anir/i, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"The exceptional features followed, her struggles with the cacodaemon, her stainless
chastity, her voluntary poverty, her penance, her whip, her haircloth, ..."
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