[a. Gr. εὐδαίμων fortunate, happy, f. εὐ (see EU-) + δαίμων guardian, genius. Sense 2 is of mod. origin, and not according to Gr. idiom.]
1. Astrol. (See quot.)
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Eudæmon, the Eleventh House of a Celestial Figure, so call’d by Astrologers, upon account of its good and prosperous Significations.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
1819. Jas. Wilson, Compl. Dict. Astrol., 94. Eudemon, the good demon, the 11th house, so called because it is the source of as many good things as the 12th house is of evil.
2. A good angel; = AGATHODEMON.
1629. H. Burton, Babel no Bethel, Ep. to Cholmley, 1. For the style, or language of it, I tooke it to bee some Iesuites, some Eudemon’s, or Cacodæmon’s, or the like.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
1834–43. Southey, Doctor (1848), 672/1. The simple appendage of a tail will cacodemonise the Eudæmon.
