| 单词 | familiar spirit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfamiliar spirit familiar spirit n. [after post-classical Latin spiritus familiaris (15th cent.), Middle French, French esprit familier (end of the 15th cent. as †esperit famillier); compare Spanish espíritu familiar (c1481–2 or earlier)] a spirit, often taking the form of an animal, which obeys and assists a witch or other person; = sense A. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > familiar or possessing spirit spiritc1350 familiar devila1464 familiar spirita1545 Python1548 familiar1583 succubus1601 demon1613 paredrusa1641 maisterel1652 obsessor1652 paredrial1652 cad1657 kanaima1825 Zar1868 a1545 T. Lanquet Epitome of Chron. (1559) iii. f. 233v [He] confessed, that he dyd it by the mocion of a familyar spirite. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) vii. §143. 473 People, who..had familiar spirits attending on them. 1775 N. W. Wraxall Let. 2 Feb. in Mem. Courts (1799) II. 137 The doctrine of familiar spirits has its votaries and believers... Men..profess to possess the secret of invoking, summoning, and commanding these invisible agents. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxvii. 183 No familiar spirit could have suggested to him more effective words. 1999 R. E. Guiley Encycl. Witches & Witchcraft (ed. 2) 120/2 In shamanism, a novice shaman acquires his familiar spirits, usually manifested in animal, reptile or bird shapes, when he completes his initiation. < as lemmas |
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