Definitions
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- adjective obsolete Divinely inspired.
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- adjective obsolete
divinely inspired
Etymologies
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From Latin entheātus ("divinely inspired"), from Ancient Greek ἔνθεος ("inspired, possessed by (a) god") + -atus.
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Examples
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He was an _enthusiast_ in its true and good sense; he was “entheat,” as if full of God, as the old poets called it.
Spare Hours John Brown 1846
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