Demoniac vs Venomous - What's the difference?
demoniac | venomous | Related terms |
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 […].
Full of venom.
Toxic; poisonous.
Noxious; evil.
Malignant; spiteful; hateful.
Producing venom (poison usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging) in glands or accumulating venom from food.
powerful
* {{quote-news
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, date=December 10
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, title=Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton
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Demoniac is a related term of venomous.
As adjectives the difference between demoniac and venomous
is that demoniac is possessed or controlled by a demon while venomous is full of venom.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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* * *venomous
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(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Arsenal pressed forward again after half-time but other than a venomous Walcott shot that Howard repelled with a fine one-handed save, the hosts offered little cutting edge.}}