demonographern.
/ˌdiːməˈnɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /ˌdiməˈnɑɡrəfər/ A person who writes about demons or other aspects of the occult.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > demonology > one who studies or writes on
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1657 J. Davies tr. G. Naudé Hist. Magick xx. 273 Divers Historians and Demonographers [Fr. Demonographes] have taken such a strange freedom to charge all sorts of men with Magick.
1677 J. Webster Displaying Supposed Witchcraft iv. 50 The gross fables, lyes, impossibilities, and nonsensical stories that Demonographers and Witchmongers have related and accumulated together.
1771 J. Dove Vindic. Hebrew Script. 54 To expose at large the extravagances of the historians and dæmonographers, in their misrepresentation of the greatest men that ever lived.
1878 tr. P. Lacroix Sci. & Lit. Middle Ages & Renaissance 201 Plotinus..and his disciple Porphyrus..founded the new magical science [sc. Gnosticism], and..may be looked upon as the first demonographers of the Middle Ages.
1883 Notes & Queries 24 Nov. 401/2 Italian demonographers do not make any distinction between..a fairy and a witch.
1908 Canad. Mag. Jan. 216/1 Its existence is attested..by all the jurists and demonographers of the middle ages.
2004 K. Armstrong Industr. Magic 156 They'll tell you they're gods, but most demonographers are uncomfortable with that appellation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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