释义 |
diˈabolepsy nonce-wd. [f. Gr. διάβολος devil, after catalepsy, epilepsy, from Gr. -ληψία = -ληψις taking, seizure.] Diabolical seizure or possession. So diaboˈleptic, one possessed with a devil.
1886H. Maudsley Nat. Causes 315 Neither theolepsy nor diabolepsy nor any other lepsy in the sense of possession of the individual by an external power. |