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Daemon
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- 1 A minor deity or divinity.
"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."
- 2 A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal. Unix
- 3 a person who is part mortal and part god wordnet
- 4 A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish.
"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."
- 5 an evil supernatural being wordnet
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- 6 An idea depicted as an entity.
- 7 Alternative spelling of demon. Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative, uncommon
Etymology
A borrowing of Latin daemōn (“tutelary deity”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”).
A reference to Maxwell's demon. The putative derivation from "disk and execution monitor" is generally considered a backronym.
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