demoniacs

And therefore, they called demoniacs, that is, possessed by the devil, such as we call madmen or lunatics, or such as had the falling-sickness; or that spoke anything which they, for want of understanding, thought absurd.

Leviathan 2007

And therefore, they called demoniacs, that is, possessed by the devil, such as we call madmen or lunatics, or such as had the falling-sickness; or that spoke anything which they, for want of understanding, thought absurd.

Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

And no wonder, when we consider that the evil passions, endowed as they seem to be with a portentous excess of vigor by the very circumstance of _being_ evil, (as the demoniacs were the strongest of men,) are exasperated the more by a certain degree of awe impressed on them by the defensive attitude of their objects.

An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance John Foster 1806

And yet it is significant that among these that class of miracles is not found which not only, according to the Synoptics, was the most common, but also (according to the general agreement of modern historians and theologians of every school) least deserves to be doubted -- we mean the cure of so-called possessed persons or demoniacs, that is to say, of the mentally sick, a cure which is effected by physicians fairly often even in our own times.

The Johannine Writings 1851-1935 1908

Jesus' friends were prostitutes, tax collectors, lepers, demoniacs, and Samaritans -- people who were outsiders and vile sinners.

Carl Medearis: I Don't Own Jesus Carl Medearis 2011

In these cases the victims have usually been children who have been revealed to be demoniacs or witches by a pastor within one of the pentecostal churches which have arrived in the United Kingdom along with Diaspora from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Protest Against The Brutal Treatment of Children Accused of Witchcraft Christopher 2009

In these cases the victims have usually been children who have been revealed to be demoniacs or witches by a pastor within one of the pentecostal churches which have arrived in the United Kingdom along with Diaspora from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Archive 2009-07-01 Christopher 2009

The devil is then appeased by giving the demoniacs a few sous; but the better to restrain them, fifty archers of the watch are placed in the church with fixed bayonets.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

As to demoniacs who say they are possessed merely to gain money, instead of being bathed, they are at present flogged.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

We may have doubts about this history, while we preserve the most profound respect for genuine miracles; and we may be permitted to observe that this is not the way in which we now cure demoniacs.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007