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cacodemon, -dæmon|kækəʊˈdiːmən|
[a. Gr. κακοδαίµων evil genius; also adj. possessed by an evil genius, ill-starred; whence sense 2.]
1. An evil spirit.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. xix. (1495) 45 Plato in Cuneo callith the deuyll Cachodemon, that is to vnderstonde knowynge euyll.] 1594Nashe Terrors of Nt. Wks. 1883–4 III. 267 Anie terror, the least illusion in the earth, is a Cacodæmon vnto him. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 144 Leaue this World, Thou Cacodemon! 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 644 Nor was the Dog a Cacodæman, But a true Dog. 1728Young Love Fame ii. (1757) 95 Poor negroes, thus, to show their burning spite To cacodæmons, say, they're dev'lish white. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 93 To make the pagan divinities hateful, they were stigmatized as cacodæmons.
†b. Med. A name for nightmare. Syd. Soc. Lex.
1811in Hooper Med. Dict.
c. transf. Applied to persons, etc.
1711S. Centlivre Marplot iv. Wks. (1760) 168 The old Cacademon is gone into that house. 1821Scott Kenilw. (1867) 109 My miller's thumb—my prince of cacodemons—my little mouse. 1854Badham Halieut. 420 Untaught by their parents to know better, these little cacodemons, etc.
2. Astrol. The Twelfth House (or Scheme) in a figure of the Heavens, so called from its baleful signification.
a1625Fletcher Rollo iv. ii. 442 The twelfth the Cacodemon. 1721–90in Bailey. |