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† demoˈnomanie Obs.
[a. F. démonomanie (1580 in Hatzf.), ad. med.L. demonomania, a. eccles. Gr. δαιµονοµανία foolish belief in demons, f. µανία mania.]
Foolish belief in demons; devotion to the subject of demonology.
1623Favine Theat. Hon. ii. xiii. 208 Excelled in Demonomanie all them that had gone before them. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 231 They..abolisht their celestiall worship, and (as Strabo relates) received Demonomanie, continued till Mahomet. |