demono-
1
a combining form representing demon, in compound words:
demonology.
Also, especially before a vowel, demon-.
Related Words
- demonography
- demonolatry
- demonology
demono-variant of demon-, before consonants.
demono-
combining form
- of or relating to demons表示“（与）魔鬼（有关）的”：
-
demonolatry.
词源
from Greek daimon 'demon'.
1730–6 Bailey (folio), Demonocracy, the government of devils.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 282A spirit..By foul demonocracy wholly subdu'd.
1827 Sir H. Taylor Isaac Comnenus ii. iii,A demonocracy of unclean spirits Hath govern'd long these synods of your Church.
1718 D. Campbell ( title),Dæmonomachie or War with the Devil, in a short Treatise.
a1808 Bp. Hurd (L.),The author had rifled all the stores of demonomagy to furnish out an entertainment.
1652 Gaule Magastrom. 165Dæmonomancy, divining by the suggestions of evill dæmons or devils.
1865 Cornh. Mag. Apr. 475But what is demonopathy the Morzinois might reasonably have asked? What was it that had come to their valley?
1883 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,Demonopathy, dæmonomania.
1888 J. Murdoch Women of India 16This demonophobia was learned from their mothers.
1780 Wesley Wks. (1872) IX. 518..ought to be styled a demonosopher rather than a theosopher. [ Behmen]
1881 Overton W. Law 198Behmen was no ‘Demonosopher’ (to adopt Wesley's happy phrase).
ORIGIN: Repr. Greek daimono- combining form of daimon demon noun -o-