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Definition of Daimon
1. Noun. An evil supernatural being.
Generic synonyms: Evil Spirit
Specialized synonyms: Incubus, Succuba, Succubus, Dibbuk, Dybbuk
Derivative terms: Demonize, Devilize
Definition of Daimon
1. Noun. A tutelary spirit that guides a person; a genius. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Daimon
1. an attendant spirit [n -S or -ES] : DAIMONIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daimon
Literary usage of Daimon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thrice-greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis by Hermes (1906)
"... daimon So also in the early Alchemical literature there is a treatise of
Agathodaimon addressed to Osiris, and in it others are presupposed.2 These ..."
2. History of Greece, and of the Greek People, from the Earliest Times to the by Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Victor Duruy, M. M. Ripley (1892)
"We have already heard the voice of the daimon in the Iliad of Homer and'in the
... 2 How far did the idea of Sokrates go on the subject of the daimon? ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1848)
"Here we have the sense in which the Jews understood having a daimon, precisely
that of the Hindoo of this day. For, as we said in our former paper ..."
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