cacodemon.

An evil or malevolent spirit in supernatural or literary tradition.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a cacodemon’s influence
• invoke a cacodemon

On the page

The manuscript blamed the fever on a cacodemon no witness had seen.

She called the presence a cacodemon, and the priest refused to repeat the name.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular cacodemon; plural cacodemons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.