Demoniac vs Demonic - What's the difference?
demoniac | demonic |
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 […].
Pertaining to demons or evil spirits; demoniac.
Pertaining to dæmons in ancient Greek thought; concerning supernatural ‘genius’.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , I:
Demonic is a related term of demoniac.
As adjectives the difference between demoniac and demonic
is that demoniac is possessed or controlled by a demon while demonic is pertaining to demons or evil spirits; demoniac.As a noun demoniac
is someone who is possessed by a demon.demoniac
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* 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.
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* * *demonic
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* daemonic (dated), (dated)Adjective
(en adjective)- Convinced that his uncle was a warlock, he rifled through his attic, looking for demonic artifacts.
- Once he had grasped the controls, he unleashed a demonic laugh that made his hostages shudder.
- Aristotle concedes that the nature of the dream is indeed daemonic , but not divine – which might well reveal a profound meaning, if one could hit on the right translation.