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Definition of Energumens
1. energumen [n] - See also: energumen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Energumens
Literary usage of Energumens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham, Richard Bingham (1840)
"The next sort of persons for whom prayers were now made, were the energumens,
that is, such persons as were seized or possessed by an evil spirit. ..."
2. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham (1855)
"In another place2 : 'The first prayer is full of mercy, when we pray for the
energumens : the second prayer likewise, wherein we pray for the penitents, ..."
3. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two by Joseph Bingham (1856)
"So that though the canons and rules of the church seem to drive away the energumens
together with the catechumens and penitents ..."
4. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham (1834)
"Of the Prayers for the energumens, or Persons possessed by Evil Spirits. The Forms
of these Prayers. The next sort of persons, for whom prayers were now ..."
5. The Work Claiming to be the Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, Including by Irah Chase, William Whiston, Otto Krabbe (1848)
"And after they are gone out, let him say, Ye energumens afflicted with unclean
spirits, ... Bow down your heads, ye energumens, and receive the blessing. ..."
6. A Church dictionary by Walter Farquhar Hook (1859)
"ship, but they were not permitted to partake of the eucharist until wholly
restored, except in the immediate prospect of death. In general, the energumens ..."
7. The Antiquities of the Christian Church by Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti, Georg Friedrich Heinrich Rheinwald, Carl Christian Friedrich Siegel (1841)
"OF energumens, OR DEMONIACS. Mention is often made in the ancient church, of
persons possessed of an evil spirit. The regulations of the church bestow upon ..."
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