The victim could moreover be transformed into a beast--a feat which St. Augustin endeavors to explain by dæmonic delusion.
More rarely there were terrible visions of a dæmonic nature.
We are at home with the dæmonic life of nature when he chooses to bring Pan and his following before our eyes (iv.
There is a life dæmonic rather than human in those mighty limbs; and the passion that bends them on the marriage bed has in it the stress of storms, the rampings and the roarings of leopards at play.
On the canvas of Sodoma he reproduces the voluptuous charm of youthful Bacchus, with so much of anguish in his martyred features as may serve to heighten his dæmonic fascination.
But his eloquence is not of a pious or healthy, but of a carnal, strangely exciting, dæmonic description.
The Danish Romanticists are never insane like Hoffmann, but neither are they ever dæmonic like him.
You say expressly that I believe in dæmonic affairs, therefore in dæmons; but dæmons are a sort of gods or the offspring of gods.
If it seems absurd that I should meddle thus with each man privately, but take no part in public affairs, that is because of the divine or dæmonic influence of which I have spoken, named also in mockery by Meletus in the indictment.
And something more has been added--that element of dæmonic passion which the earlier manipulators of the theme were unable to communicate to it.
They are of course as malicious as possible, but the style, with its dæmonic extravagance, is remarkably clever.
To the Roman there was something dæmonic in the German.
It sought to establish a relation between itself and the next world by means of dæmonic forces, and in place of the depreciated nationality and its religion we find the eclecticism of the mystic society.
We characterize this individuality as dæmonic because it desires recognition simply for its own sake.
This individuality, which had only itself for an end, must necessarily be destroyed, and was saved only by Christianity, which overcame and enlightened its dæmonic and defiant spirit.
To them it was a dæmonic power, capable of rousing or assuaging the passions, and hence of being used for infinite good or evil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
