Definition of Cacodaemon

1. Noun. An evil spirit.

Exact synonyms: Cacodemon
Geographical relationships: Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic
Generic synonyms: Evil Spirit
Derivative terms: Cacodaemonic, Cacodemonic
Antonyms: Eudemon

Definition of Cacodaemon

1. Noun. Wicked or (malevolent) spirit as opposed to (agathodemon) (a good spirit). ¹

2. Noun. Twelfth (astrological) House, from which only (evil) prognostics are alleged to proceed. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) nightmare ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cacodaemon

cacking
cackle
cackle-bladder
cackle-bladders
cackle bladder
cackleberry
cackled
cackler
cacklers
cackles
cackling
cackly
cacks
caco-
caco-2 cells
cacodaemon (current term)
cacodaemoniacal
cacodaemonic
cacodaemonical
cacodaemons
cacodemon
cacodemonic
cacodemonical
cacodemonomania
cacodemonomanias
cacodemons
cacodoxical
cacodoxy
cacodyl
cacodyl group

Literary usage of Cacodaemon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... afh'nm, cacodaemon ruber dicitur. Adr. .Tun. This designation assimilates him to the .... larva vel cacodaemon ; (Anir/i, ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"The exceptional features followed, her struggles with the cacodaemon, her stainless chastity, her voluntary poverty, her penance, her whip, her haircloth, ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Cacodaemon on Dictionary.com!Search for Cacodaemon on Thesaurus.com!Search for Cacodaemon on Google!Search for Cacodaemon on Wikipedia!

Search