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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who is in a state of nympholepsy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One seized with ecstasy or frenzy; a person rapt or inspired. The explanation ‘a person seized with madness on having seen a nymph’ (see the quotations) is inaccurate.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person in a state of nympholepsy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person seized by nympholepsy

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek νυμφόληπτος (numpholēptos, "caught by nymphs, frenzied"), from νύμφη (numphē) + λαμβάνω (lambanō, "I take"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek numpholēptos, caught by nymph, frenzied : numphē, nymph + lēptos, seized (from lambanein, lēp-, to seize). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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