NOUN
- someone who acts as if possessed by a demon
ADJECTIVE
- of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon
How To Use demoniac In A Sentence
- The noise that instantly ensued in the town was something pandemoniacal. The Lighthouse
- Demoniacally arthropodan be a coastward that gets inaudible and we go from paraleipsis topping backstop to scandinavian butty. Rational Review
- And as the Romans in this held the same opinion with the Greeks, so also did the Jews, for they called madmen prophets, or, according as they thought the spirits good or bad, demoniacs; and some of them called both prophets and demoniacs madmen; and some called the same man both demoniac and madman. Chapter VIII. Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects
- One of them gives a demoniac plan, and another comes and gives a demoniac clap to it.
- While Nickell mentioned that many early cases of possession were probably due to disorders such as epilepsy or Tourette's syndrome, pharmacology may also play an increasing role in treating alleged demoniacs.
- Page 44 it would seem, that you do not only chuckle with a demoniac joy over what you suppose are the exquisite tortures of my sensibilities but your ecstacies are redoubled and refined in the proud contemplation of the additional fact that you are the author of my terrible agonies, the illiad of all my woes. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
- ‘Throughout the auditorium, demoniacs are paired off with exorcism ministers,’ writes Cuneo, who himself rushed help wrestle down a particularly violent demoniac to prevent him from further battering Pastor Mike.
- The six-storey tall screen captures the demoniac fury of the falls in such realistic detail that you cringe with fear as you watch it.
- It seemed to him for a moment that Osmond had a kind of demoniac imagination; it was impossible that without malice he should have selected so unusual a topic. Chapter XLVIII
- There is in human nature what Goethe used to call a demoniac element, defying all law, and all induction; and we can, I fear, from that one cause, as easily calculate the progress of the human race, as we can calculate that of the vines upon the slopes of AEtna, with the lava ready to boil up and overwhelm them at any and every moment. Roman and the Teuton