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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | Copyright

energumen possessed person, demoniac. XVIII. — late L. energūmenus — Gr. energoúmenos, pass. ppl. of energeîn work in or upon, f. EN-2 + érgon WORK.

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