单词 | demonomaniac |
释义 | demonomaniacn. Now historical. A person thought to be possessed by an evil spirit; spec. a person who believes this of himself or herself; a person affected with demonomania. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > possession > person demoniacc1405 diabolicalc1547 phantic1605 possessed1657 demonomaniac1831 diaboleptic1879 theoleptic1881 1831 T. Cooper tr. F. Broussais On Irritation & Insanity ii. viii. 268 In the middle ages, those times of fanaticism and ignorance, demonomaniacs [Fr. démonomaniaques] were common; but they were delivered over rather to the priest who exorcised them, than to the physician. 1891 C. Lombroso Man of Genius iii. i. 173 For the demonomaniacs of a hundred years ago..are now substituted the modern paranoiacs. 1920 G. K. Chesterton New Jerusalem ix. 177 I do not say that psychologists admit the discovery of demoniacs; and if they did they would doubtless call them something else, such as demonomaniacs. 1995 J. P. Eigen Witnessing Insanity iii. 61 In still another [age], the monomaniac, the demonomaniac, and the tristemaniac come under the specialists' gaze. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831 |
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