different between cacodaemoniacal vs cacodemon

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

• cacodaemon
• cacodæmon

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (kakodaím?n, “ill-starred”), from ????? (kakós, “bad”) + ?????? (daím?n, “genius, divinity”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæk??di?m?n/

Noun

cacodemon (plural cacodemons)

1. An evil or malevolent spirit.
2. The twelfth astrological House, from which only evil prognostics are alleged to proceed.

Antonyms

• (malevolent spirit): agathodemon

Related terms

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

Translations

See also

• eudaemon