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demoniacal

[ UK /diːmˈə‍ʊnɪˌækə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon

How To Use demoniacal In A Sentence

  • When Severin found he could get no more intoxicating beverage, he in his demoniacal rage, conceived the idea of despatching his whole family, and set about his purpose by first snatching the young babe and casting it into the fire! Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
  • Demoniacal... "Anastasia could tell, when he got to demoniacal, that he was going to go on for quite a while. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
  • We may quite allowably heighten the above picture by supposing that the person in her trance, in addition to being mad, might have displayed some of the perceptive powers occasionally developed in trance; and so have evinced, in addition to her demoniacal ferocity, an "uncanny" knowledge of things and persons. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
  • -- The word rendered "devils," is always used for those spiritual agents employed in demoniacal possessions -- never for the ordinary agency of Satan in rational men. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • I still recoil at the memory of that ammoniacal, and demoniacal, assault on my eyes and nose. John B. Fenn - Autobiography
  • The mammoth was a monster beast, with perhaps somewhat less of sagaciousness than the modern elephant, but with a temper which was demoniacal when aroused, and with a strength which nothing could resist. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
  • In addition, I'm having second thoughts about deserting America at this particularly pandemoniacal moment. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
  • It's what might weel be described as pandemoniacal. The Firm of Girdlestone
  • Pelle's head, and round about it went, striking the most improbable objects, _dum, dum, dum_, as though in wild, demoniacal obedience to the flute-like tones of the journeyman. Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
  • A plausible reason cited for this name is that the Arabian for evil spirit is _Al ghole_, and the effects of the mysterious liquid upon men suggested demoniacal possession. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
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