Definitions
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- noun Wicked or
malevolent spirit as opposed toagathodemon (a good spirit). - noun Twelfth
astrological House, from which onlyevil prognostics are alleged to proceed. - noun obsolete
nightmare
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- noun an evil spirit
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pipes entered into this opinion the more willingly, as he had all along believed the senior to be a sort of wizard, or some cacodaemon, whom it was not very creditable to be acquainted with.
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"And just when I had got it nearly ashore, by the very place where you are sitting, on that shelving bank, young man, the line broke, and the perch twisted himself among those roots, and -- cacodaemon that he was -- ran off, hook and all.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"And just when I had got it nearly ashore, by the very place where you are sitting, on that shelving bank, young man, the line broke, and the perch twisted himself among those roots, and -- cacodaemon that he was -- ran off, hook and all.
My Novel — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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