sadique

From the name of the Marquis de Sade, renowned for his libertine writings evoking the pleasure of harming others. The term 'sadism' was coined or recorded in the posthumous 1834 edition of Boiste's Universal Dictionary of the French Language; it was reused with 'sadistic' in 1862 by Sainte-Beuve in his commentary on Flaubert's Salammbô; it was picked up (perhaps independently) in 1886 by the psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing in his Psychopathia Sexualis which popularized it; it was directly taken up in 1905 by Freud in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, which definitively established it.