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ephialtes

ephialtes [LL < ἐφιάλτης] 1 ephialtes, nightmare (imagined as throttling incubus). in quo genere et ~em, quo quis ‥ cum dormiat putatur ab aliquo interim pregravari, connumerandum arbitrantur J. Sal. Pol. 429C; differt epilempsia ab ~e, quod ~es quodammodo est ei contraria: in ea enim privatur motus et non sensus Gilb. II 109. 1; incubus sepe veniens sive epilates [sic], quod idem est Gad. 61. 2; nyhtmare, epialtes ‥ vel offialtes PP; þe bychdoghter, epialtis, epialta, noxa CathA. 2 witch. s1382 cum ‥ quis nominasset S. Mariam de Lincolnia vel S. Mariam de Walsyngham, vocabant [Lollardi] eas epialtes, hoc est in materna lingua wyche of Lincolne and wyche of Walsyngham Knighton Cont. II 183; s1428 in ‥ convocatione ‥ adductus fuit unus clericus de secta Wyklyf et una ~es †dextris [? l. de exteris] contra fidem Chr. S. Alb. 24.

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