pandemonic

English

Etymology

From pandemonium +‎ -ic, after demonic.

Adjective

pandemonic (comparative more pandemonic, superlative most pandemonic)

1. Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
   • 1810 August 1, Argus Quizmenog, “Anticipatiana Reformeriana”, in The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor, volume VII, London, page 155:

     […] for on no other principle can I account for the prolongation of the day of feasting at the Crown and Anchor, until the 31st day of July, unless it is to allow themselves one little month to boast f respectability, &c. &c. &c., before the Satirist can present to the public a true account of the pandemonic scene.

   • 1833 January, “Pandemonic Revels”, in The Royal Lady’s Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James’s, number XXV, London, page 15:

     Sheets, tablecloths, white gowns, and pocket-handkerchiefs were instantly in demand, and every one, as has been seen, entered, con amore, into the extempore entertainment of Pandemonic Revels.

   • 1833, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Sea-Side Meditation”, in Prometheus Bound. Translated from the Greek of Æschylus. And Miscellaneous Poems., London: […] A. J. Valpy, […], pages 95–96:

     Yea! for such sights and acts do tear apart / The close and subtle clasping of a chain, / Form’d not of gold, but of corroded brass, / Whose links are furnish’d from the common mine / Of every day’s event, and want, and wish; / From work-times, diet-times, and sleeping-times: / And thence constructed, mean and heavy links / Within the pandemonic walls of sense, / Enchain our deathless part, constrain our strength, / And waste the goodly stature of our soul.