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energumen|ɛnəˈgjuːmən|
Also 9 (? Fr.) energumene.
[ad. late L. energūmenus, a. Gr. ἐνεργούµεν-ος, pass. pple. of ἐνεργέειν to work in or upon, f. ἐν in + ἔργ-ον work: cf. Fr. energumène. The Lat. pl. energumeni sometimes occurs.]
1. One that is wrought upon or possessed by a devil; a demoniac.
[1685tr. Bergerac's Satyr. Char. xiii. 59 If then this Energumenus, hath a thousand lengths and breadthes that are so many Crosses about her.] 1706tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 98 From Catechumens he passes to the Energumens. 1820Scott Abbot xxxii, If there was ever an Energumene, or possessed demoniac..there is a devil speaking with that woman's tongue! 1855Smedley Occult Sc. 173 Such catechumens as were not at the same time energumens. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola (1880) I. i. v. 69 Of an energumen whose dwelling is among tombs.
2. A ‘possessed’ person, an enthusiast, a fanatical devotee. Also attrib.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. i. iii. (1852) 63 Quakers and Seekers, and other such Energumens. Ibid. iii. ii. xxvi. 493 The man..of an energumen countenance. 1818T. Jefferson Writ. IV. 451 When General Washington was withdrawn, the energumeni of royalism..mounted on the car of State. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. civ. 12 Suppose some ‘energumene’ were to make the declaration, etc. 1885Morley in Macm. Mag. Feb. 255/2 The seeming peril to which priceless moral elements of human character were exposed by the energumens of progress.
Hence † eˌnerguˈmenical a. Obs., having the characteristics of a demoniac or ‘possessed’ person. enerˈgumenist = energumen 1.
1684I. Mather Remark. Provid. (1856) 121 Certain arguments of an energumenical person. 1646Gaule Cases Consc. 37 The meerly Passive be simply deemoniacks, but not Energumenists. |