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If for some unimaginable and demonistic chance that hillary the antiChrist gets the nomination, this democrat will definitely vote for McCain, if not, it'll be Obama all the way.
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Wḫdw could also be a demon, and this has suggested the transfer from an originally demonistic to a more physiological principle.
HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968
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+ The ritual notion of uncleanness, being a product of deduction from demonistic world philosophy, was arbitrary, and was capable of indefinite extension.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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It therefore has the greatest apparatus by which to satisfy human needs, as they appear under the demonistic interpretation of the world and human life.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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The periods mentioned were periods of special activity of the demonistic function.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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The demonistic notions taught by the church furnished popular deductions, which the church took up and reduced to dogmatic form, and returned as such to the masses.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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They employ demonistic imagery which is quite familiar to voters-for example, images of uncaring, incompetent bureaucrats who don't give a fig about you or yours.
DailyHowler.com 2009
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