empuse
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin empusa, from Ancient Greek.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
empuse (plural empuses)
- (obsolete) A phantom; ghost; spectre.
- 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:
- But Suidas tells of certain Empuse that used to appear at such times as the Greeks did celebrate the funerals of the dead
References edit
- “empuse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.