Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An evil spirit; a devil.
- noun In medicine, the nightmare.
- noun In astrology, the twelfth house of a scheme or figure of the heavens: so called from its signifying dreadful things, such as secret enemies, great losses, imprisonment, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An evil spirit; a devil or demon.
- noun (Med.) The nightmare.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An evil or
malevolent spirit. - noun The twelfth
astrological House, from which only evil prognostics are alleged to proceed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an evil spirit
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek κακοδαίμων (kakodaimōn, "ill-starred"), from κακός (kakos, "bad") + δαίμων (daimōn, "genius, divinity").
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Examples
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But his cacodemon is puny and he himself absolutely crumples once in Fillory.
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(presumably with ID numbers), so you just lined up the imp/cacodemon/whatever which represented a rogue thread, and let 'em have it with both barrels.
qms commented on the word cacodemon
There are many invisible wee men
Who pester though we don't see them.
There are fairies and sprites
But the prince of dark knights
Is the horrid and fierce cacodemon.
October 2, 2014