different between devil vs demonism

English

Alternative forms

• davil, debbil, deevil (pronunciation spelling)
• diuel, divel (dialectal or archaic)
• deuill, devel, devell, devill, diuell (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English devil, devel, deovel, from Old English d?ofol, d?oful, from earlier d?obul (“devil”), from Latin diabolus, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (diábolos, “accuser, slanderer”), also as "Satan" (in Jewish/Christian usage, translating Biblical Hebrew ??????? (??t?n)), from ???????? (diabáll?, “to slander”), literally “to throw across”, from ??? (diá, “through, across”) + ????? (báll?, “throw”). The Old English word was probably adopted under influence of Latin diabolus (itself from the Greek). Other Germanic languages adopted the word independently: compare Saterland Frisian Düüwel (“devil”), West Frisian duvel (“devil”), Dutch duivel, duvel (“devil”), German Low German Düvel (“devil”), German Teufel (“devil”), Danish djævel (“devil”), Swedish djävul (“devil”) (older: djefvul, Old Swedish diævul, Old Norse dj?full). Doublet of diable, diablo, and diabolus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?v??l, IPA^(key): /?d?v?l/
• (rare, dated) enPR: d?v?îl, IPA^(key): /?d?v?l/
• Rhymes: -?v?l

Proper noun

the devil

1. (theology) The chief devil; Satan.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Satan

   Antonym: God

Alternative forms

• Devil

Translations

Noun

devil (plural devils)

1. (theology) An evil creature.

   Synonym: demon

   Antonyms: angel, god

2. (folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
3. The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.

   Antonyms: angel, conscience

4. A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.

   Synonyms: imp, rascal, scamp, scoundrel

   Antonyms: angel, saint

5. A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.

   Synonyms: bastard, bitch, (UK) bugger, stinker

   Antonyms: (US) cakewalk, piece of cake

6. (euphemistic, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.

   Synonyms: (euphemistic) deuce, (euphemistic) dickens, (vulgar) fuck, heck, hell

7. A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.

   Synonyms: (UK) bugger, (used of a woman) cow, (UK) sod

8. A dust devil.
9. (religion, Christian Science) An evil or erring entity.
10. (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.

11. (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
12. A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
13. A Tasmanian devil.
14. (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.

Derived terms

Related terms

• diabolo
• diablo

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: tewel
• ? Chuukese: tefin

Translations

Verb

devil (third-person singular simple present devils, present participle (US) deviling or devilling, simple past and past participle (US) deviled or devilled)

1. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
2. To annoy or bother.

   Synonyms: bedevil; see also Thesaurus:annoy

3. To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), page 401:

     He did not repeat the scathing estimate of her character by Quatrefages, who at that time spent one afternoon a week devilling at the Consulate, keeping the petty-cash box in order.

4. To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy:
   1. To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
   2. To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
   3. To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.

Usage notes

• UK usage doubles the l in the inflected forms "devilled" and "devilling"; US usage generally does not.

Derived terms

• deviled egg, devilled egg
• deviled ham, devilled ham
• devilled sausages

Translations

See also

• Al-Shaytaan
• angel
• daeva
• demon
• enemy
• ghoul
• jinn
• Lucifer
• nasnas
• Satan

Further reading

• devil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• divel, lived, vilde, viled

Middle English

Noun

devil

1. Alternative form of devel

English

Alternative forms

• daemonism
• dæmonism

Etymology

demon +? -ism

Noun

demonism (countable and uncountable, plural demonisms)

1. (uncountable) Belief in, or worship of demons or devils.
   • 1699, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Of Virtue, and the Belief of a Deity, in An Inquiry Concerning Virtue in Two Discourses, London: A. Bell et al., p. 10,^[1]

     […] if he believes more of the prevalency of an ill designing Principle than of a good one, he is then more a Daemonist than he is a Theist, and may be called a Daemonist from the side to which the balance most inclines. ¶ All these sorts both of Daemonism, Polytheism, Atheism, and Theism, may be mixed […]

   • 1957, Muriel Spark, The Comforters, New York: Avon, 1965, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 171,^[2]

     It is very much to be doubted if Mervyn Hogarth had ever in his life given more than a passing thought to any black art or occult science. Certainly he was innocent of prolonged interest in, let alone any practice of, diabolism, witchcraft, demonism, or such cult.

2. (uncountable) The quality of being demonic (often figuratively).
   • 1915, Henry James, letter to Evan Charteris dated 22 January, 1915 in Percy Lubbock (ed.), The Letters of Henry James, London: Macmillan, Volume 2, p. 453,^[3]

     What a pitiful horror indeed must that Ypres desolation and desecration be—a baseness of demonism.

   • 1925, Edmund James Banfield, Last Leaves from Dunk Island, Part 1, Chapter 1,^[4]

     What significant illustration of the demonism of the wind does a fallen palm present!

   • 1953, Roland Gelatt, Music Makers: Some Outstanding Musical Performers of Our Day, New York: Knopf, “Sir Thomas Beecham,” p. 31,^[5]

     Almost alone among contemporary conductors, he avoids the path of demonism; he takes music in his stride and does not press it with febrile intensity.

3. (countable) An act or event attributed to demons or devils; an evil act.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 41,^[6]

     All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.

   • 1919, Thomas Burke, “Chinatown Revisited” in Out and About: A Note-Book of London in War-Time, London: George Allen & Unwin, p. 47,^[7]

     So many boys, so many places have disappeared. Blue Gate Fields, scene of many an Asiatic demonism, is gone.

Anagrams

• medimnos, misnomed

Romanian

Etymology

From French démonisme

Noun

demonism n (uncountable)

1. demonism

Declension