Controlled vs Demoniac - What's the difference?
controlled | demoniac |
possessed or controlled by a demon.
Of or pertaining to demons; demonic.
* 1928 , H. P. Lovecraft, "", Weird Tales , Vol. 11, No. 2, pages 159–178, 287:
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber & Faber 2005, p. 216:
Someone who is possessed by a demon.
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 53:
*:The exorcism was dropped from the second Edwardian Prayer Book, because of its implication that unbaptised infants were demoniacs […].
As adjectives the difference between controlled and demoniac
is that controlled is inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions while demoniac is possessed or controlled by a demon.As a verb controlled
is past tense of control.As a noun demoniac is
someone who is possessed by a demon.demoniac
English
Alternative forms
* daemoniac *Adjective
(en adjective)- Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell.
- There was movement everywhere, screaming, demoniac activity; the old man was coming across the tumbling logs.
