pandemoniac
pandemoniac adjective: relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
Adjective
pandemoniac (comparative more pandemoniac, superlative most pandemoniac)
- Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
- I was taken out of my bed, overpowered with the unnatural heavy sleep, as usual, when the necromancer chooses to give me a pandemoniac lodging, to please his own demoniac fancy.1821, Thomas Henry Marshal, “The Exile restored”, in The Irish Necromancer; or, Deer Park. A Novel., volume I, London: […] A. K. Newman and Co., […], page 45
- We believe, too, that this most ungodly garment was actually black; and there its wearer stood, perking his pandemoniac stock in the face of the pious door-keeper, like Satan at the gates of heaven!1825 December, “An Essay on a Common-Place Topic”, in The Oriental Herald, volume VII, number 24, London, page 478
Noun
pandemoniac (plural pandemoniacs)
- One who delights in pandemonium and often causes it.
- […]and never did a conclave of popish pandemoniacs with their own Vulcan seated as and for their president, confronted by his deputy with hammer, tongs, and poker, for his triple trident, meet at any time (except to concoct and perpetrate a deed of blood, more or less direct) to determine upon an...1838, James (the Elder;) Humphrys, The Pioneers in Contrast. A Disquisition Descriptive Throughout of the Truly Simoniacal Use and Anti-Christian Abuse of Water, as at this Day Employed in the Matter...
- […]and in his two hands were two wind instruments, which he used alternately for the production of sounds delicious to boys and pandemoniacs.1872 June 29, “Bar One”, in Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading, volume I, number 26, Boston, Mass.: James R. Osgood and Company, page 722, column 1
- Something that is characterized by pandemonium.
- The question is, therefore, whether we are to practise and to endure bad manners, and thereby to revert, as we must in that case, to the state of nature and the uses of pandemoniacs; or whether it would be not best and wisest for each of us both to pay to and to claim from all, those manifestations...1875 June 5, R., “Our Manners”, in Vanity Fair, London, page 311, column 1
- Well sah! wid dat he rushed for Brudder Cain, An' eberry brudder grabbed a brudder, and it is wid pain, I chronikle de windin' up of what started berry cibil; Sich a pandemoniac ez would shame de berry debil;1882 April, J.A. Doyle, “De Bredden on Dancin'”, in The Elocutionist's Journal, number 43, page 3
Examples of pandemoniac in a sentence
- To conjure pigwidgeons and pandemoniacs from those regions which are forever night.1994, Robert Rankin, Raiders of the Lost Car Park, page 43:
- My spirit then sending signals through these partial diameters, through dangers magically implied by powers which roam the pandemoniacs of the Oort dimension.2011, Will Alexander, Diary as Sin, page 156:
Forms of pandemoniac
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more pandemoniac |
| superlative | most pandemoniac |
| Noun | |
| plural | pandemoniacs |
Origin of pandemoniac
From pandemonium + -ac, after demoniac.
Words formed from pandemoniac
Questions about pandemoniac
- What does pandemoniac mean?
- Pandemoniac means relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
- How do you use pandemoniac in a sentence?
- To conjure pigwidgeons and pandemoniacs from those regions which are forever night.
- What part of speech is pandemoniac?
- Pandemoniac can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near pandemoniac in the dictionary
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