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adj. - Resembling or suggesting possession by an evil spirit; In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by an evil spirit.

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  • With the next breath it shrieks in demoniacal fury, "We must have a victim for the sacrifice, and you shall pay! pay! pay!"
  • Till this moment the idea of demoniacal interference in my undertaking had not occurred to me.
  • The instinct was terrible; a demoniacal possession.
  • "Hear me!" rose to contest with that demoniacal uproar.
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