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Definition of Empuse
1. n. A phantom or specter.
Definition of Empuse
1. Noun. (obsolete) A phantom or spectre. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Empuse
1. empusa [n -S] - See also: empusa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empuse
Literary usage of Empuse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1797)
"... in his travels of Apollonius, relates the most insipid of all gossiping
stories, (nursery-stories,) the story of the empuse (Empusa, according to Person ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)
"... and loves jeering and railing no more than he loves holy water; and this was
well tried of old against an empuse that met Apollonius ..."
3. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"Where is the Demonologist that does not know that the empuse is the " south
demon " referred to in David's Psalms, and dreaded then as it is feared even now ..."
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