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A pagan god or demon, associated with the underworld and envisaged as a powerful primordial being, whose very name was taboo; an incubus. quotations examples
[…] and by them ſtood / Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name / of Demogorgon […]
1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 963–965
A manufactured horror; a Frankenstein's monster. examples