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单词 demonology
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Definition of demonology in English:

demonology

nounPlural demonologies diːməˈnɒlədʒiˌdiməˈnɑlədʒi
mass noun
  • 1The study of demons or demonic belief.

    魔鬼研究

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The belief in mental illness, as something other than man's trouble in getting along with his fellow man, is the proper heir to the belief in demonology and witchcraft.
    • The changing iconography of witchcraft seems to relate to another trend that only developed fully in the later sixteenth century, that of turning demonology into a kind of experimental science.
    • When I told my mom I was studying demonology, she almost had a fit.
    • Human health was left to supernatural powers and demonology.
    • The courses, starting in February, will deal with demonology, the presence of the notion of the devil in sacred texts, and the pathology and medical treatment of people suffering from possession.
    • Some of the essays deal with relatively specialized interests (such as, demonology or Marston's verse satire), and few engage with ‘big pictures’ or reflect on critical methodologies.
    • Asser ploughs on ever deeper into his demonology of the victims and sanitising of their aggressors.
    • Medicine and witchcraft, pharmacology and demonology, reason and unreason struck an odd alliance.
    • As Clark also emphasises, that debate placed demonology at the centre of many contemporary preoccupations about the nature of both the world and the divine purpose.
    • I have studied nearly every book written on the subject of demonology and find that most scholars do not commit themselves.
    • Research for the Scottish Executive has fingered mean-spirited van drivers as the worst culprits in cutting up cyclists and blocking cycle lanes, with cab drivers not far behind in the pedal-power demonology.
    • It is from the North, and Norse mythology that demonology develops.
    • Newspaper editor Laura Kincaid's investigation of the case and the small town uncovers a history of witchcraft and demonology.
    • While demonology may be the most dramatic, mediumship is also a form of necromancy, as is divination, which employs the use of spirit guides.
    • Since demonology is a qualified profession and is believed to be real by so many around the world, maybe there is a hint of truth in my family's fear.
    • The work discusses many subjects including demonology, magnetism and the camera obscura.
    • This show could also be seen as addressing the rampant trend towards demonising the other in every conflict at all levels, which forces us to perceive the world through screens of demonology.
    • I have added explanations for some of the questions raised by readers, including one from Dharmeshwaran Natesan about ‘the demonology of the time’ as it appeared in an article in The Hindu.
    • When hatred of foreign policies ignites into hatred of an entire people and their civilization, then thinking is dead and demonology lives.
    • Cordelia interrupted, highly uninterested in Wesley's recent lecture involving his frightening, sometimes sad, demonology expertise.
    1. 1.1 A set of beliefs about people or things regarded as harmful or unwelcome.
      he was public enemy number one in the demonology of the Australian right wing
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Hence, the previous superpower demonologies now appear incongruous, if not ludicrous, when occasionally applied to their nuclear foes.
      • That friendship has apparently become very important to Cherie, as her life has moved from family-and-career anonymity to tabloid demonology.
      • Why has smoking been so readily accepted into so many different cultures, where it has been the subject of creation myths and demonologies?
      • This subtly points to our own construction of people as demons or our internalisation of demonologies without paying heed to the subterranean layers of history and folklore.
      • Almost all the demonologies of the 1400s and early 1500s were written by inquisitors, who often refer to witch trials that they or other inquisitors conducted.
      • I suspect that further analysis of the role of animals will support my assertion that the works also represent remarkably similar demonologies.
      • However, as one reviewer put it, such popular demonologies seem able to survive any amount of exorcism.
      • The wider context of this research is the literature addressing the connectedness of demonologies to economic and social transformations.

Derivatives

  • demonological

  • adjective
    • To follow the demonological literature, devils were perfectly capable of invading artworks, especially statues, making their lifeless bodies, like artificial cadavers, begin to move and speak.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He went on to identify the fundamental dualism that always tended to creep into demonological arguments.
      • Many other trial records evidently contain allusions to fairies which have been cloaked with demonological definition, however only those which contain direct references to fairies will be used as evidence of popular fairy belief.
      • Educated opinion in both countries was affected by a new demonological theory which reinvented the witch as a member of a conspiracy against Christendom.
      • One would have to be suspicious of any attempt to describe general attitudes whose sources came exclusively from the clerical world and the authors of demonological works.
  • demonologist

  • noun
    • He was a brilliant demonologist and an excellent demon hunter.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In brief, Yates spends a deal of time defending the Elizabethan magician Dr Dee against charges of being a demonologist.
      • His assessment is that neither the types of magic described in the trial accusations, nor the procedures and outcomes of the trials themselves, conform to the stereotypes of demonologists.
      • Such beliefs often stemmed from Paracelsian doctrines of spirits, through which fairies came to be elected honorary servants to magicians, and that may be how demonologists began identifying them as devils.
      • This is the second year that the Vatican has offered a course for aspiring demonologists and exorcists.

Definition of demonology in US English:

demonology

nounˌdēməˈnäləjēˌdiməˈnɑlədʒi
  • The study of demons or demonic belief.

    魔鬼研究

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Medicine and witchcraft, pharmacology and demonology, reason and unreason struck an odd alliance.
    • The work discusses many subjects including demonology, magnetism and the camera obscura.
    • Cordelia interrupted, highly uninterested in Wesley's recent lecture involving his frightening, sometimes sad, demonology expertise.
    • Newspaper editor Laura Kincaid's investigation of the case and the small town uncovers a history of witchcraft and demonology.
    • Since demonology is a qualified profession and is believed to be real by so many around the world, maybe there is a hint of truth in my family's fear.
    • Some of the essays deal with relatively specialized interests (such as, demonology or Marston's verse satire), and few engage with ‘big pictures’ or reflect on critical methodologies.
    • While demonology may be the most dramatic, mediumship is also a form of necromancy, as is divination, which employs the use of spirit guides.
    • It is from the North, and Norse mythology that demonology develops.
    • The changing iconography of witchcraft seems to relate to another trend that only developed fully in the later sixteenth century, that of turning demonology into a kind of experimental science.
    • Research for the Scottish Executive has fingered mean-spirited van drivers as the worst culprits in cutting up cyclists and blocking cycle lanes, with cab drivers not far behind in the pedal-power demonology.
    • Human health was left to supernatural powers and demonology.
    • Asser ploughs on ever deeper into his demonology of the victims and sanitising of their aggressors.
    • As Clark also emphasises, that debate placed demonology at the centre of many contemporary preoccupations about the nature of both the world and the divine purpose.
    • I have studied nearly every book written on the subject of demonology and find that most scholars do not commit themselves.
    • The courses, starting in February, will deal with demonology, the presence of the notion of the devil in sacred texts, and the pathology and medical treatment of people suffering from possession.
    • When I told my mom I was studying demonology, she almost had a fit.
    • When hatred of foreign policies ignites into hatred of an entire people and their civilization, then thinking is dead and demonology lives.
    • I have added explanations for some of the questions raised by readers, including one from Dharmeshwaran Natesan about ‘the demonology of the time’ as it appeared in an article in The Hindu.
    • The belief in mental illness, as something other than man's trouble in getting along with his fellow man, is the proper heir to the belief in demonology and witchcraft.
    • This show could also be seen as addressing the rampant trend towards demonising the other in every conflict at all levels, which forces us to perceive the world through screens of demonology.
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