Daemon

/ˈdiː.mən/ · noun

Meaning

(mythology) A minor deity or divinity..

Definitions by Sense

1. (mythology) A minor deity or divinity.
2. A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish.
3. An idea depicted as an entity.
4. Archaic spelling of demon.
5. (computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.

Example Sentences

2018, Carolyn Graves-Brown, Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt, University of Wales Press, page 46, On some apotropaic wands the hippopotamus daemon bites or devours a person.⁸⁸ On a well-known New Kingdom papyrus, Taweret, who is named, is listed amongst evil daemons.

2015, Harold Bloom, The Daemon Knows, Penguin Random House (Random House), eBook edition, unnumbered page, Coleridge, deep in daemons, looked to them for his poetic power: They gave him Kubla Khan, Christabel, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He welcomed his daemon or genius and yet feared it.

That is why those of exceptionally "daemonic temperament", those who cannot early and thoroughly subdue the daemon within them, are racked by disquietude. Ever and again the daemon snatches the helm from their control and steers them (helpless as straws in the blast) into the heart of the storm, perchance to shatter them on the rocks of destiny.

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• daemons
• daemones
• dæmon
• daimon
• demon

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