Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The nightmare.
- noun [capitalized] In ornithology, a genus of owls: same as
Scops . - noun [capitalized] In entomology, a genus of ichneumon-flies, of the subfamily Pimplinæ, containing insects of moderate or small size with a long ovipositor, usually parasitic on lepidopterous larvæ. There are about 12 North American and nearly 20 European species.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The nightmare.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete an
incubus ; anightmare
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Examples
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Hebrew; for ephialtes, which signifies leaper, oppressor, incubus, in Greek is, according to Pluche, “a vast accumulation of clouds.”
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But you and me know that they're all just too busy celebrating their new-found peace and freedom to go home. ephialtes You are assuming things and over simplifying also the sad substitute we have of a democracy we have in the West is pretty unevolved.
The Guardian World News Simon Jenkins 2010
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Boss? at least you didn’t get “jim norton” or “ephialtes” until I just mentioned them, and I appologize for that.
pavonine commented on the word ephialtes
Nightmare;also,the demon believed to cause it
November 5, 2007