Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An insane person believed by others, or by himself, to be possessed by a devil.
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Examples
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"And then, and then, these doctrines which consist nowadays in confounding the criminal with the insane, the demonomaniac with the mad, have absolutely no foundation.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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