Meaning of dæmon | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated spelling of daemon.

Examples

“Edmund was almost as welcome to his brother, as Fanny to her aunt; but Mrs. Norris, instead of having comfort from either, was but the more irritated by the sight of the person whom, in the blindness of her anger, she could have charged as the dæmon of the piece.”

“It was their opinion, and that of all similar sects, that cœlestial powers were often incarnate and came from time to time to rule the earth, dæmon kings whose conception and aphanism were alike miraculous.”

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