Is that even a word? I tried to spell check it and nothing came up?
DEMONISTIC
by monkeyshine 11 Replies latest jw friends
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Sad emo
Try DEMONIC
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Arthur
I just tried looking it up in the American Heritage Dictionary, and it is not there. Only the word demonic is there.
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monkeyshine
well, the reason I am asking is because growing up that was an everyday word at the hall and with everyone I knew. But I guess not. All those talks about bad grammer stumbles others and here we were using a word that doesn't exist? I never thought to question it because it was so common.
Was that a local thing or did other ares use that? Just curious...
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earthtone
We used the phrase Demonistic too and everybody but Jehovah's witness are according to my mother
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Trippin2962
duh? don't you know the Jdubs have their own language. The "Pure Language". Many of their words are used quite differently than the rest of the world and some don't even exist with regular folks.
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stealyourface
Jdubs have their own language
Isn't it Pure...Language?
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Virgochik
We used "demonized" at our Hall...that's not a real word, either, is it?
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Nathan Natas
-istic,
a suffix of adjectives (and in the plural, of nouns from adjectives) formed from nouns ending in -ist and having reference to such nouns, or to associated nouns in -ism (deistic; euphuistic; puristic). In nouns, it usually has a plural form (linguistics). Cf. -ist, -ic, -ics.[< L -isticus < Gk -istikos; in some words, r. -istique < F < L, as above]
So the the word demonistic is properly formed from the word
DEMONIST.
de·mon·ism
"Æmà nizÅÃm), n.1.
belief in demons.2.
the study of demons; demonology.[1690–1700;
DEMON- + -ISM]—de
Æmon·ist, n.-ist,
a suffix of nouns, often corresponding to verbs ending in -ize or nouns ending in -ism, that denote a person who practices or is concerned with something, or holds certain principles, doctrines, etc.: apologist; dramatist; machinist; novelist; realist; socialist; Thomist. Cf. -ism, -istic, -ize.
[ME -iste < L -ista < Gk -ist
"s; in some words, repr. F -iste, G -ist, It -ista, etc., Î L < Gk, as above] -
Skimmer
It's missing from the electronic Oxford American Dictionary that comes free with the current version of Apple's Mac OS/X. Interestingly, the same dictionary has all the profane words I've used, along with a few vulgar connective phrases I hadn't heard nor seen before. So I think that its general coverage is fairly complete.