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Meanings of energumen in English

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Usage of energumen in English
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I left him dancing and raving like an energumen.
The Life of George Borrow
2
His verses I detest, but I love to hear him recite them-hehas the air of an energumen.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2)
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Hence those who are exorcized are called energumens, as it were "laboring inwardly."
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) / From the Complete Ame...
4
1: The energumens are so-called from "laboring inwardly" under the outward operation of the devil.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) / From the Complete Ame...
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2: Further, among those who have not the use of reason are the possessed, who are called energumens.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) / From the Complete Ame...
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"But what is an energumen?"
Middlemarch
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): "The exorcist should know the exorcisms by heart, and impose his hands on the energumens and catechumens during the exorcism."
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) / From the Complete Ame...
Energumen through the time