De"mon (?), n. [F. d'emon, 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 inmediate 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
daemon.]
3.
An evil spirit; a devil.
That same demon that hath gulled thee thus.
Shak.
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