DEMONIACAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demoniacal mean? 

• DEMONIACAL (adjective)
  The adjective DEMONIACAL has 1 sense:

1. of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon

  Familiarity information: DEMONIACAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMONIACAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon

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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

demoniac; demoniacal; possessed

 Context examples 

“Or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you? Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy? Peace, peace! Learn my miseries and do not seek to increase your own.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

All the demoniacal force of the man masked behind that listless manner burst out in a paroxysm of energy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Micawber's affairs, although past their crisis, were very much involved by reason of a certain Deed, of which I used to hear a great deal, and which I suppose, now, to have been some former composition with his creditors, though I was so far from being clear about it then, that I am conscious of having confounded it with those demoniacal parchments which are held to have, once upon a time, obtained to a great extent in Germany.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)