empuse

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English

Etymology

Latin empusa, from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

Noun

empuse (plural empuses)

  1. (obsolete) A phantom; ghost; spectre.
    • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “.] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ . 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

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