demonomy

English

Etymology

Apparently formed within English, from demono- +‎ -nomy.[1]

Noun

demonomy (uncountable)

  1. The dominion of demons.
    • T. Herbert, London 1638, Some Yeares Travels Into Africa & Asia the Great. Especially Describing the Famous Empire of Persia and Hindustan. As also Divers other Kingdoms in the Orientall Indies, and Iles Adjacent, page 325
      "But these Iavans are drunck in their demonomy"

Derived terms

References
  1. “demonomy, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “demonomy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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