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A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
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An evil supernatural spirit.
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A neutral supernatural spirit.
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Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
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He’s a demon at the card tables.
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A form of patience (known as Canfield in the US).
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Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
Examples of daemons in a Sentence
If, in the Gnostic systems, these become daemonic or semi-daemonic forces, this points to the fact that a stronger monotheistic religion (the Iranian) had gained the upper hand over the Babylonian, and had degraded its gods to daemons.
This can only be explained on the assumption that some religion hostile to, and stronger than the Babylonian, has superimposed itself upon this, and has degraded its principal deities into daemons.
We must also reject the theory that this degradation of the planetary deities into daemons is due to the influence of Hebrew monotheism, for almost all the Gnostic sects take up a definitely hostile attitude towards the Jewish religion, and almost always the highest divinity among the Seven is actually the creator-God of the, Old Testament.
Hence, a principal item in their religious practice consisted in communications about the being, nature and names of the Seven (or of any other hostile daemons barring the way to heaven), the formulas with which they must be addressed, and the symbols which must be shown to them.
Private routers or routing daemons that offer service to the college network are not permitted.
But only physical bodies can enter the Land of the Dead; daemons, being the physical representation of one's soul, cannot.
How many mailer daemons do you think will be spinning out there?