Obs. rare1. [f. Gr. ἐν in + δαίμων, δαίμον-ος DEMON, on analogy of enthusiasm.] Inspiration by a demon.
1751. Byron, Enthus., Poet. Wks. 1773, II. 24. The variety of delusion with which a different spirit may then possess its votaries will centre
in endemoniasm.