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1614 E. Grimeston tr. P. Matthieu Hist. Lewis XI i. 2 Paris receiues him as the Demon Gardian of her wals.

a1638 J. Mede Apostasy Latter Times (1641) 27 A worshipper of Dæmon-gods.

1711 R. Blackmore Nature of Man i. 25 Impious Priests, full of the Demon Guest,..Exclaiming loud, the Fiend within confest.

1795 Ld. Monboddo Antient Metaphysics IV. ii. vii. 160 Those Dæmon Kings of Egypt were real personages as much as Menes, their first human King.

1814 J. Galt Prophetess iii. iv Like the demon-hags of Tartarus.

1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 71 And let his spirit, like a demon-mole, Work through the clayey soil and gravel hard.

1890 E. H. Barker Wayfaring in France 15 That small demon-insect, the mosquito.

1904 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) II. 50 In the 'seventies pantomime was flourishing still. Demon King and Fairy Queen..were familiar.

1922 Theosophical Path Mar. 291 The demon-bride was seen by some upon the rocks urging the waves to madness.

1999 R. E. Guiley Encycl. Witches & Witchcraft (ed. 2) 221/2 A mandragoras, a demon spirit resembling a little man with no beard.

2006 New Yorker 25 Dec. 10/2 Tom Sawyer may represent a kind of demon-child.