English Dictionary

devil-ridden

adj

Plagued or dominated by the devil or devils. / Possessed by a devil or devils. / (figuratively) Suffering from mental anguish. / (figuratively) Wild, crazed.

The small town was devil-ridden, with reports of supernatural occurrences and strange rituals.

意味（1）

Plagued or dominated by the devil or devils.

To VVrangle the Devil, out of the Country, vvill be truly a Nevv Experiment! Alas, vve are not Avvare of the Devil, if vve do not think, that he aims at Enflaming us one againſt another; & ſhall vve ſuffer our ſelves to be Devil-Ridden? or, by any Vnadviſableneſs, contribute unto the VVidening of our Breaches?

意味（2）

Possessed by a devil or devils.

[…] he plunges into the struggles of the multitude below, and frees the devil-ridden boy from the demon that possessed him.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Suffering from mental anguish.

I am still plaguy lame, a very limpet, but not so devil-ridden as I was. I think that came of that infernal furnace-heat we were in, the last few days of Italy […]

意味（4）

(figuratively) Wild, crazed.

[…] Grandmaster Werner […] had lain down in Marienburg one afternoon of this year 1330, to take his siesta, and was dreaming peaceably after a moderate repast, when a certain devil-ridden mortal, Johann von Endorf, one of his Ritters, long grumbling about severity, want of promotion and the like, rushed in upon the good old man; ran him through, dead for a ducat […]