demoniacとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English demoniak et al., from Old French demoniaque, from Late Latin daemoniacus.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /dɪˈməʊnɪak/, /diməˈnaɪæk/

形容詞

demoniac (comparative more demoniac, superlative most demoniac)

1. Possessed or controlled by a demon.
2. Of or pertaining to demons; demonic.
   • 1827, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Poems, 1827: The Sweetness of Life, page 24:

     How dark may be the hiding of God's face,
     Or what demoniac forms may seize the helm
     Of reason...

   • 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., OCLC 55045234, pages 159–178 and 287:

     Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell.

   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 216:

     There was movement everywhere, screaming, demoniac activity; the old man was coming across the tumbling logs.

名詞

demoniac (複数形 demoniacs)

1. Someone who is possessed by a demon.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 53:

     The exorcism was dropped from the second Edwardian Prayer Book, because of its implication that unbaptised infants were demoniacs […].

参照

• demoniac in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• comedian, daemonic, dæmonic, midocean