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Pandemoniac
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- 1 Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
"I was taken out of my bed, overpowered with the unnatural heavy sleep, as usual, when the necromancer chooses to give me a pandemoniac lodging, to please his own demoniac fancy."
- 1 One who delights in pandemonium and often causes it.
"[…]and never did a conclave of popish pandemoniacs with their own Vulcan seated as and for their president, confronted by his deputy with hammer, tongs, and poker, for his triple trident, meet at any time (except to concoct and perpetrate a deed of blood, more or less direct) to determine upon an affair of more deep and dark importance, than that of the aforesaid junta of “old wives.”"
- 2 Something that is characterized by pandemonium.
"The question is, therefore, whether we are to practise and to endure bad manners, and thereby to revert, as we must in that case, to the state of nature and the uses of pandemoniacs; or whether it would be not best and wisest for each of us both to pay to and to claim from all, those manifestations of mutual respect in which Good Manners consist."
Etymology
From pandemonium + -ac, after demoniac.
From pandemonium + -ac, after demoniac.
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