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  • adjective Of or pertaining to demonology.

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Examples

  • Jindal writes that afterwards, his friend was no longer afflicted, except for one demonological hiccup.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • Halloween is to be given a dramatic twist this year with the rising from the sulphurous pits of hell by the Lord Of Darkness himself, according to one demonological expert.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Push Jelly 2008

  • Halloween is to be given a dramatic twist this year with the rising from the sulphurous pits of hell by the Lord Of Darkness himself, according to one demonological expert.

    Beelzebub Expected Early This Evening, Say Satanists Push Jelly 2008

  • This seal of the devil is a small sign-manual, which, as demonological jurisconsults affirm, renders the skin insensible.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Now she uses her demonological knowledge as THE CRIMSON QUEEN!

    JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #208 DC COMICS, 1982 David Campbell 2006

  • Page 45 about the way language gives such traumas the meaning they have but ignore the extent to which contemporaries found reassurance in demonological (and millenarian) explanations, even of chaos. 57

    Carleton Cunningham: The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century France Carleton Cunningham 1993

  • These demonological tracts were at once attempts on the part of some contemporaries to suppress certain beliefs and attitudes which they considered superstitious and of others to contend that such views were indeed orthodox.

    Carleton Cunningham: The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century France Carleton Cunningham 1993

  • Historians working on the ecclesiastical history of France in the early modern period are fortunate in that a rich collection of pamphlets and demonological tracts has survived and has been made widely accessible in a microfiche series.

    Carleton Cunningham: The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century France Carleton Cunningham 1993

  • Most terrifying in evil majesty was the Zoroastrian Ahriman, and it has been con - jectured that the grim dualism of the Zendavesta may have had some influence on Jewish and Christian demonological speculation.

    PROBLEM OF EVIL RADOSLAV A. TSANOFF 1968

  • Had I known Mr.W. 's book, The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth Century Discussions of Eternal Torment, I might well have consulted him on demonological points in the text.

    Publisher's Row Zachary, Robert Y. 1966

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