a. Obs. rare–1. [ad. Gr. ἐνθεαστικ-ός, f. ἐνθεάζειν to be the subject of ‘possession’ by a god, f. ἔνθεος ENTHEOS.] (See quot.)
Hence Entheastical a., Entheastically adv.
1794. T. Taylor, trans. Plotinus, Introd. 23. The entheastic (or such as are agitated by a divine fury). Ibid., trans. Pausanias’ Greece, III. 266. Wisdom … delivered … entheastically, or according to a deific energy.
