different between cacodaemoniacal vs cacodaemon

English

Alternative forms

• cacodemoniacal

Etymology

From cacodemoniac +? -al.

Adjective

cacodaemoniacal (comparative more cacodaemoniacal, superlative most cacodaemoniacal)

1. Demonic; evil.
   • 1921, HP Lovecraft, ‘The Nameless City’:

     I have said that the fury of the rushing blast was infernal — cacodaemoniacal — and that its voices were hideous with the pent-up viciousness of desolate eternities.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cacodaemoniacal.

Related terms

• cacodaemonical
• cacodaemon
• daemonic
• daemon

English

Alternative forms

• cacodemon
• cacodæmon

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (kakodaím?n), from ????? (kakós, “bad, evil”) and ?????? (daím?n, “divinity, genius”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæk??di?m?n/

Noun

cacodaemon (plural cacodaemons)

1. A wicked or malevolent spirit as opposed to agathodemon (a good spirit).
2. Twelfth astrological House, from which only evil prognostics are alleged to proceed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (obsolete) A nightmare.

Related terms

• cacodaemoniacal
• cacodaemonic
• cacodemonic
• daemonic
• demonic
• daemon
• demon

See also

• agathodemon
• eudaemon