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Ephialtes (4 syl.)

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The nightmare. (Greek, ephialtēs, an incubus; from epihallomai, to leap upon.)

“Feverish symptoms all, with which those who are haunted by the night-hag, whom the learned call Ephialtēs, are but too well acquainted.”—Sir W Scott: The Antiquary, chap. x.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Entrée (To have the)
Entremets [arn-tre-may]
Eolian
Eolus
Epact
Epergne
Ephebi
Ephesian
Ephesian Letters
Ephialtes
Ephialtes
Ephori or Ephors
Epic
Epicure
Epicurean
Epicuros. (Latin form, Epicurus.)
Epi-demic
Epigram
Epilepsy
Epimenides
Epiphany

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