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Date "ASMODEUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Asmodeus [the destroyer ]. The demon of vanity and dress, called in the Talmud "the king of devils." The Asmodeus of domestic peace (in the Book of Tobit). Asmodeus falls in love with Sara, daughter of Raguel, and causes the death of seven husbands in succession, each on his bridal night. After her marriage to Tobit, he was driven into Egypt by a charm, made by Tobias of the heart and liver of a fish burnt on perfumed ashes, and being pursued was taken prisoner and bound. "Better pleased Than Asmodeus with the fishy fume That drove him, though enamoured, from the spouse Of Tobit's son, and with a vengeance sent From Media post to Egypt, there fast bound." Milton: Paradise Lost , iv. 167--71. Asmodeus The companion of Don Cléofas, in The Devil on Two Sticks. (Chap. iii.) Asmodeus flight. Don Cléofas, catching hold of his companion's cloak, is perched on the steeple of St. Salvador. Here the foul fiend stretches out his hand, and the roofs of all the houses open in a moment, to show the Don what is going on privately in each respective dwelling. "Could the reader take an Asmodeus-flight, and, waving open all roofs and privacies, look down from the roof of Notre Dame, what a Paris were it!" - Carlyle: French Revolution II., vi. chap. vi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Demon | Noun: demon, daemon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba; Frankenstein's monster; Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman; fury, harpy; Friar Rush. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ASMODEUS |
| English words defined with "ASMODEUS": Abaddon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ASMODEUS": Demon of Matrimonial Unhappiness ♦ Sammael. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ASMODEUS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (Asmodeus). |
| "ASMODEUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "ASMODEUS" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 95.24% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (common) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
asmodeus | 54 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ASMODEUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | Asmodeus. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | asmodeusay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-o-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: assumed, medusas, moussed. | |
-2 letters: amused, amuses, assume, doumas, douses, massed, medusa, mossed, moused, mouses, mousse, mussed, odeums, sedums, soused. | |
-3 letters: amuse, assed, dames, demos, domes, doses, douma, doums, douse, dumas, masse, mauds, meads, meous, mesas, modes, modus, moues, mouse, mused, muses, oases, odeum, sades, seams, sedum, sodas, somas, souse, sumos. | |
-4 letters: ados, amus, dame. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-o-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: coassumed, madhouses. | |
+2 letters: housemaids. | |
+3 letters: deutoplasms, pseudomonas, stomodaeums. | |
+4 letters: eudaemonisms, eudaemonists, eudaimonisms, gourmandises, groundmasses, pseudomonads, somersaulted, sulfonamides, superstardom. | |
+5 letters: desquamations, disaccustomed, miseducations, mountainsides, praseodymiums, pseudomonades, superstardoms, unimpassioned. | |
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