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noun

Demoniac n.

A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon. "The demoniac in the gospel was sometimes cast into the fire."

(Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.

adjective

Demoniacal, Demoniac adj.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices. "Sarcastic, demoniacal laughter."

Influenced or produced by a demon or evil spirit; as, demoniac or demoniacal power. "Demoniac frenzy."

Resembling or suggesting possession by a demon; as, demoniac energy.

In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.

Synonyms: amuck, amok, berserk, demoniac, possessed(predicate).

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... weakness, whether of love or of remorse. Even in those collisions into which she had come with him she had risen in his estimation. At Chetwynde she had shown some weakness, but in her attitude to him he had discovered and had adored her demoniac beauty. At Lausanne she had been even grander, for then she had defied his worst menaces, and driven him utterly discomfited from her presence. Such was the Hilda of his thoughts. He found her now changed from this, ...

— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille

... telephone and tore it loose from its wires. He hurled the broken instrument clattering to the floor and the directory into the flames. Then he stood above the wreckage with his feet apart and his hands clenching and unclenching in a panting picture of demoniac rage. ...

— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck

... parties lacked the spiritual standpoint of the Pharisees, who believed that the Torah even without political independence would hold the people together till a better time was granted by Providence. The party conflicts induced violence and civil tumult, and Josephus would have us believe that "demoniac discord" was the main cause of the ruin of Jerusalem. During the respite which the Jews enjoyed before the final siege of Jerusalem, he alleges that a bitter feud was waged incessantly between Eleazar the son of Simon, who held the Inner ...

— Josephus • Norman Bentwich

... anxious to clear the falls and failed to take the proper precautions, the heavy craft pitched stern foremost into the sea. She sank like a stone, and with her went a number of Chileans; their despairing yells, coming up from the churning froth, seemed to be a signal for the demoniac passions latent in the crew to burst forth again, this time in a consuming blaze that would not be stayed. Each man fought blindly for himself, heedless now of all restrictions. The knowledge of this latest disaster spread with amazing rapidity. Up from the saloon came a rush of stewards and ...

— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy

... Indian is sometimes regarded as a being who is prone to all that is revolting and cruel. He is cherished in excited imaginations, as a demoniac phantasm, delighting in bloodshed, without a spark of generous sentiment or native benevolence. The philosophy of man should teach us, that the Indian is nothing less than a human being, in whom the animal tendencies predominate over the ...

— Great Indian Chief of the West - Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk • Benjamin Drake

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