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/dˈimən/ /dˈeɪmən/ Listen

noun

Daemon n. See Demon.

Demon n.

(Gr. Antiq.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. "The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human."

One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. (Often written daemon)

An evil spirit; a devil. "That same demon that hath gulled thee thus."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the Oreibasia or Mountain Walk they not only did things that seemed beyond their ordinary workaday strength; they also felt themselves led on and on by some power which guided and sustained them. This daemon has no necessary name: a man may be named after him 'Oreibasius', 'Belonging to the Mountain Dancer', just as others may be named 'Apollonius' or 'Dionysius'. The god is only the spirit of the Mountain Dance, Oreibates, though of course he is absorbed ...

— Five Stages of Greek Religion • Gilbert Murray

... did well,' replied Marcus, 'to leave it on your finger during your sickness. I looked at it and saw that it was a Christian seal. Had it been one of those which are yet seen too often, with the stamp of a daemon, I should have plucked it off, and perhaps have destroyed it. The ring of a blessed martyr I Let us seek, let us seek! But, brother Basil,' he added gravely, 'has there passed through your heart no evil thought? I like not ...

— Veranilda • George Gissing

... cobweb in its stead! As, forc'd from wind-guns, lead itself can fly, And pond'rous slugs cut swiftly through the sky; As clocks to weight their nimble motion owe, The wheels above urg'd by the load below; Me Emptiness and Dulness could inspire, And were my elasticity and fire. Some daemon stole my pen (forgive th' offence) And once betray'd me into common sense: Else all my prose and verse were much the same; This prose on stilts, that, poetry fall'n lame. Did on the stage my fops appear confin'd? My life gave ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various

... here to refer the fastidious and cultivated reader to the only adjective I have dared transcribe of this actual oath which I once had the honor of hearing. He will I trust not fail to recognize the old classic daemon in this ...

— The Story of a Mine • Bret Harte

... gods of the temples would manifest themselves of their grace. Every man had a guardian spirit, a "genius"; and by proper means he could be "compelled" to show himself visibly. The pupils of Plotinus conjured up his "genius", and it came—not a daemon, but a god. The right formula ("mantram") and the right stone in the hand—and a man had a wonderful power over the gods themselves. This was ...

— The Jesus of History • T. R. Glover

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