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6701 Etymology dictionary, p. overcome (v.).2
… Devil, evil spirits, sin, temptation, etc.), from ofer (see over ) + cuman "to come" (see come (v.)). A common Germanic compound (Middle Dutch overkomen, Old High German ubarqueman …
6702 Etymology dictionary, p. pandemonium (n.).2
… daemonium "evil spirit," from Greek daimonion "inferior divine power," from daim ō n "lesser god" (see demon ).
6703 Etymology dictionary, p. pit (n.1).4
… of evil spirits, hell" is attested from late 12c. Meaning "very small depression or dent in the surface of an object" is from early 15c. The anatomical sense of …
6704 Etymology dictionary, p. possessed (adj.).2
"controlled by an indwelling demon or evil spirit," 1530s, past-participle adjective from possess (v.). An Old English and Middle English phrase for it was devel seoc .
6705 Etymology dictionary, p. possession (n.).3
… of evil spirits or of madness," first is recorded 1580s. Phrase possession is nine (or eleven) points of the law is out of a supposed 10 (or 12). With eleven from 1640s …
6706 Etymology dictionary, p. Puck.2
… "devil, evil spirit" (c. 1300; early 13c. in place-names), from Old English puca, pucel "goblin," which is cognate with Old Norse puki "devil, fiend," a word of unknown origin …
6707 Etymology dictionary, p. Ralph.2
… imagined evil spirit who does mischief in a printing house."
6708 Etymology dictionary, p. Satan (n.).2
… supreme evil spirit and great adversary of humanity in Christianity, Old English Satan, from Late Latin Satan (in Vulgate in the Old Testament only), from Greek …
6709 Etymology dictionary, p. Satanism (n.).2
… , the evil spirit characteristic of Satan," from Satan + -ism. Applied 1820s-30s to the poetry of Byron, etc. The older senses now are rare; the meaning "worship of Satan …
6710 Etymology dictionary, p. spell (n.1).4
That sense of spell does not appear to be in Middle English, but Gower (1390) has spelling of charmes for "casting or reciting of spells;" Chaucer has night-spell for "charm for protection from evil spirits in the night."
6711 Etymology dictionary, p. troll (n.1).2
… race, evil spirit, monster." Some speculate that it originally meant "creature that walks clumsily," and derives from Proto-Germanic *truzlan, from *truzlanan …
6712 Etymology dictionary, p. witch (n.).2
… or evil spirits and to be able by their cooperation to perform supernatural acts," fem. of Old English wicca "sorcerer, wizard, man who practices witchcraft …
6713 Etymology dictionary, p. witch (n.).5
The other two words combined with it here are gealdricge, a woman who practices "incantations," and scinlæce "female wizard, woman magician," from a root meaning "phantom, evil spirit."
6714 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abaddon.7
… the evil spirit Asmodeus of Tobit (e.g. 3:8), and with the destroyer mentioned in The Wisdom of Solomon (18:25; compare 22), and through these with a large body of rabbinical …
6715 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abstinence.19
… the Evil Spirit pursue me as I beheld my face reflected in water, and I swore that these long curls shall be cut off and offered as a sacrifice to Yahweh'; whereupon …
6716 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abyss.2
… of evil spirits, but not the place of final punishment; it is therefore to be distinguished from the "lake of fire and brimstone" where the beast and the false …
6717 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Accommodation.61
… organizing spirit, an "unique spirit of inspiration" which has modified and transformed the materials held by her in common with her Semitic kindred. Even …
6718 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the Old Testament.10
… the spirit of his personal Source. All this reads like the description of a life essentially negative, or rather neutral, with free communication both downward …
6719 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the Old Testament.14
… or evil, needing only the impulse that should set the human spirit in motion. Consider the case. If manhood were ever to rise from a state of childhood, wherein …
6720 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adorn.4
… His Spirit, righteousness, a meek and quiet spirit--these are the true adornments of the life. All these passages carry with them the idea of joy, the satisfaction …