eudaimon

Alternative form of eudaemon.

Noun

  1. Alternative form of eudaemon.
    • In Heathen days it was fancied that an Eudaimon or healing spirit lingered at the spot, and this idea was not confined to peasants or the illiterate, but it was fostered and stirred to active life by the wise men of the...
    • In these days we ascribe the virtues of those wells, simply to the internal and external use of water; at least, the majority among us no longer believes, that such wells are efficacious because they are holy, although...
    • For meanwhile the Church had decided that all the classic influences, Eudaimons or Good Spirits as well as Kakodaimons or Bad Spirits were devils. - 1900 February, J. M. Campbell, “Notes on the Spirit Basis of Belief...

Origin

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek εὐδαίμων (eudaímōn). By surface analysis, eu- + daimon.

Forms

eudaimons