| 释义 |
theolepsy rare.|ˈθiːəʊlɛpsɪ|
[ad. Gr. θεοληψία, f. θεός god + -ληψία, f. λῆψις seizure, f. λαµβάνειν, root λαβ- to take.]
Seizure or possession by a deity, inspiration. So theoˈleptic [Gr. θεοληπτικ-ός adj.], one possessed or inspired by a deity.
1881W. Alexander Speaker's Comm. N.T. IV. 332/2 The streets of Ephesus were full of theoleptics and convulsionaries. 1886H. Maudsley Nat. Causes & Supernat. Seemings 222 The incoherent utterances which..the theoleptic..poured out under divine compulsion. Ibid. 315 Neither theolepsy, nor diabolepsy, nor any other lepsy in the sense of possession of the individual by an external power. |