Pandemoʹnium (A)
.A perfect pandemonium. A bear-garden for disorder and licentiousness. In allusion to the parliament of hell in Milton’s Paradise Lost, book i. (Greek, pan daimon, every demon.) (See Cordeliers.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.