Dē'mon, n.
n. [Fr. démon, Lat. dæmon, a spirit, an evil spirit, from Gr. δαίμων, a divinity; Pr. dæmoni, Sp. demonio, dimonio, It. & Pg. demonio, from Lat. dæmonium, Gr. δαιμόνιον, a divinity, an evil spirit, neut. of δαιμόνιος, belonging to a δαίμων.]
Sense 1. (Gr. Antiq.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and the deities of the pagans; — hence, also, a departed soul.
The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human. Sydenham.
Sense 2. An evil spirit; a devil. “That same demon that hath gulled thee thus.” Shak.