Dictionary: DE-MON-OC'RA-CY – DE-MOS-THEN'IC

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DE-MON-OC'RA-CY, n. [Gr. δαιμων, demon, and κρατεω, to hold.]

The power or government of demons.

DE-MON-OL'A-TRY, n. [Gr. δαιμων, demon, and λατρεια, worship.]

The worship of demons, or of evil spirits. – Campbell.

DE-MON-O-LOG'IC, or DE-MON-O-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to demonology.

DE-MON-OL'O-GIST, n.

One who writes on demonology.

DE-MON-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. δαιμων, demon, and λογος, discourse.]

A discourse on demons; a treatise on evil spirits. So King James entitled his book concerning witches.

DE-MON'O-MIST, n. [Gr. δαιμων, demon, and νομος, law.]

One that lives in subjection to the devil, or to evil spirits. – Herbert.

DE-MON'O-MY, n. [supra.]

The dominion of demons, or evil spirits. – Herbert.

DE'MON-SHIP, n.

The state of a demon. – Mede.

DE-MON'STRA-BLE, a. [See Demonstrate.]

That may be demonstrated; that may be proved beyond doubt or contradiction; capable of being shown by certain evidence, or by evidence that admits of no doubt; as, the principles of geometry are demonstrable.

DE-MON'STRA-BLE-NESS, a.

The quality of being demonstrable.

DE-MON'STRA-BLY, adv.

In a manner to preclude doubt; beyond the possibility of contradiction.

DEM'ON-STRATE, v.t. [L. demonstro; de and monstro, to show; Fr. demontrer; Sp. and Port. demostrar; It. dimostrare. See Muster.]

  1. To show or prove to be certain; to prove beyond the possibility of doubt; to prove in such a manner as to reduce the contrary position to evident absurdity. We demonstrate a problem in geometry, or a proposition in ethics, by showing that the contrary is absurd or impossible.
  2. In anatomy, to exhibit the parts when dissected.

DEM'ON-STRA-TED, pp.

Proved beyond the possibility of doubt; rendered certain to the mind.

DEM'ON-STRA-TING, ppr.

Proving to be certain; evidencing beyond the possibility of doubt.

DEM-ON-STRA'TION, n.

  1. The act of demonstrating, or of exhibiting certain proof.
  2. The highest degree of evidence; certain proof exhibited, or such proof as establishes a fact or proposition beyond a possibility of doubt, or as shows the contrary position to be absurd or impossible.
  3. Indubitable evidence of the senses, or of reason; evidence which satisfies the mind of the certainty of a fact or proposition. Thus, we hold that the works of nature exhibit demonstration of the existence of a God.
  4. In logic a series of syllogisms, all whose premises are either definitions, self-evident truths, or propositions already established. – Encyc.
  5. Show; exhibition. – Mitford.
  6. In anatomy, the exhibition of parts dissected.
  7. In military affairs, a movement of troops toward a given point, as if to make an attack.

DE-MON'STRA-TIVE, a.

  1. Showing or proving by certain evidence; having the power of demonstration; invincibly conclusive; as, a demonstrative argument, or demonstrative reasoning.
  2. Having the power of showing with clearness and certainty; as, a demonstrative figure in painting. Dryden.

DE-MON'STRA-TIVE-LY, adv.

With certain evidence; with proof which can not be questioned; certainly; clearly; convincingly.

DE-MON'STRA-TIVE-NESS, n.

Quality of being demonstrative.

DEM'ON-STRA-TOR, n.

  1. One who demonstrates; one who proves any thing with certainty, or with indubitable evidence.
  2. In anatomy, one who exhibits the parts when dissected.

DE-MON'STRA-TO-RY, a.

Tending to demonstrate; having a tendency to prove beyond a possibility of doubt.

DE-MOR-AL-I-ZA'TION, n. [See Demoralize.]

The act of subverting or corrupting morals; destruction of moral principles.

DE-MOR'AL-IZE, v.t. [de and moralize or moral.]

To corrupt or undermine the morals of; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt in morals. The effect would be to demoralize mankind. Grattan on Catholic Petition. The native vigor of the soul must wholly disappear, under the ste – dy influence and the demoralizing example of profligate power and prosperous crime. – Walsh, Letters on France.

DE-MOR'AL-IZ-ED, pp.

Corrupted in morals.

DE-MOR'AL-IZ-ING, pp.

  1. Corrupting or destroying morals or moral principles.
  2. adj. Tending to destroy morals or moral principles.

DE-MOS-THEN'IC, a.

Pertaining to Demosthenes, the Grecian orator.