Hypertext Webster Gateway: "demon"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Demon
See {DAEMON}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Demon \De"mon\, n. [F. d['e]mon, L. daemon a spirit, an evil
spirit, fr. Gr. ? a divinity; of uncertain origin.]
1. (Gr. Antiq.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a
middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between
the divine and the human. --Sydenham.
2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the
demon of Socrates. [Often written {d[ae]mon}.]
3. An evil spirit; a devil.
That same demon that hath gulled thee thus. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
demon
n 1: one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian
belief [syn: {devil}, {fiend}, {daemon}, {daimon}]
2: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: {monster}, {fiend},
{devil}, {ogre}]
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