devil-ridden

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Plagued or dominated by the devil or devils.
 * 2) Possessed by a devil or devils.
 * 3) * 1948,, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 12, p. 100,
 * He exorcised the fierce demoniac in the land of the Gerasens, whom no man had been able to tame or even to keep chained among the tombs; and Peter saw the fearful spectacle of the thousand devil-ridden swine thundering down a rocky declivity to perish in the churning waters, like damned souls plunging into hell.
 * 1)  Suffering from mental anguish.
 * 2) * 1878,, letter cited in , The Life of William Morris, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899, Volume I, Chapter 11, p. 370,
 * 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
 * 1) * 1938, R. Thurston Hopkins, “The Tower of the Forty Companions” in Ghosts and Goblins, London: The World’s Work,[1938], p. 88,
 * This, of course, was merely the semi-delirious notions of a man devil ridden by fever and nerves
 * 1)  Wild, crazed.
 * 1) * 1878,, letter cited in , The Life of William Morris, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899, Volume I, Chapter 11, p. 370,
 * 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
 * 1) * 1938, R. Thurston Hopkins, “The Tower of the Forty Companions” in Ghosts and Goblins, London: The World’s Work,[1938], p. 88,
 * This, of course, was merely the semi-delirious notions of a man devil ridden by fever and nerves
 * 1)  Wild, crazed.
 * 1)  Wild, crazed.
 * 1)  Wild, crazed.