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demon | American Dictionary

demon
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdi·mən/
an evil spirit

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It was then that witches, demons and fire spirits took possession of the wastelands.
Moreover, the horrors undertaken under the dubious authority of those who have believed in demons have motivated many to dismiss the theory altogether.
These entities may be called demons or "the evil," animalculi or bugs, bacteria or viruses.
We did not want to be 'stars', we simply wanted to create original performances and in the process exorcize some of our own personal demons.
The demon was then instructed to overturn a basin of water some distance away, in order to prove to onlookers that it had indeed left.
Consider that with tolerance and patience, we godly demons may breed a noble world in a few hundred generations or so.
Nor could it, when learned divines on both sides continued to promote belief in demons.
Even though the libretto indicates each divertissement for the ballet, the dancers, here representing priests and demons, certainly also participated in the instrumental airs.
The point was to distinguish the preternatural and the supernatural, the wonders (mirabilia) of demons and the miracles (miracula) of saints.
This could be accomplished either by exposing our entire framework to the user, or by exposing a form tailored to this demon-specification process.
It would be a world containing demons masquerading as cats.
Aspirations toward the ideal of a demon reasoner may consequently be adaptive for direct competition with such agents.
I bade the demon goodnight and made a hasty exit.
We briefly describe each step of the compilation process, and follow the transformation of a rule, from its logical expression towards the generated procedural demons.
Following our bounded rationality perspective, a fast and frugal mind need not employ a metalevel demon who makes optimal cost-benefit computations when selecting a heuristic.
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