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  • HCE
  • enthusiast: someone who is possessed by a god; someone who is under the influence of prophetic or religious frenzy → Montanism encouraged ecstatic prophesying
  • thew: a slave, bondman, servant, serf
  • thew: a cucking-stool, used as a public pillory to punish female heretics (like Montanists)
  • cuckling: (archaic) cockling, cherishing
  • cucking: shitting, defecating
  • cucking-stool: an instrument of punishment for heretical women, comprising a close-stool (chair with chamber pot), to which the victim was tied and forced to endure public humiliation or ducking in a river or pond
  • cuddling
  • hoyden: an ill-bred girl
  • heathen: a heretic (e.g. Montanists), who might be punished in a cucking-stool