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|txtha=1st aorist [[passive]] participle δαιμονισθείς; ([[δαίμων]]); to be [[under]] the [[power]] of a [[demon]]: [[ἄλλος]] κατ' [[ἄλλην]] δαιμονίζεται τυχην, Philemon 1in Stobaeus, ecl. phys. 1, p. 196; of the [[insane]], [[Plutarch]], symp. 7,5, 4, and in [[other]] [[later]] authors. In the N. T. δαιμονιζόμενοι are persons [[afflicted]] [[with]] [[especially]] [[severe]] diseases, [[either]] [[bodily]] or [[mental]] ([[such]] as [[paralysis]], [[blindness]], [[deafness]], [[loss]] of [[speech]], epilepsy, [[melancholy]], [[insanity]], etc.), whose bodies in the [[opinion]] of the Jews demons ([[see]] [[δαιμόνιον]]) had entered, and so held [[possession]] of [[them]] as [[not]] [[only]] to [[afflict]] [[them]] [[with]] ills, [[but]] [[also]] to [[dethrone]] the [[reason]] and [[take]] its [[place]] [[themselves]]; [[accordingly]], the [[possessed]] were [[accustomed]] to [[express]] the [[mind]] and [[consciousness]] of the demons [[dwelling]] in [[them]]; and [[their]] [[cure]] [[was]] [[thought]] to [[require]] the [[expulsion]] of the [[demon]] — ([[but]] on [[this]] [[subject]] [[see]] B. D. American edition [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Demoniac Demoniacs and references [[there]]; Weiss, Leben Jesu, [[book]] iii., [[chapter]] 6): δαιμονισθείς, [[that]] had been [[possessed]] by a [[demon]] (demons), ὀχλούμενοι [[ὑπό]] or [[ἀπό]] πνευμάτων ἀκαθάρτων, T Tr WH ἐνοχλούμενοι); καταδυναστευόμενοι [[ὑπό]] τοῦ διαβόλου, i. e. by his ministers, the demons, Acts 10:38.