Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of madness in which the victim imagines himself to be an ox.
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- noun the
delusion that one is anox
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Examples
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His punishment took the form of believing he was an ox, a condition known as boanthropy, and he lived like a wild animal for seven years, before making a full recovery and being restored to power.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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His punishment took the form of believing he was an ox, a condition known as boanthropy, and he lived like a wild animal for seven years, before making a full recovery and being restored to power.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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His punishment took the form of believing he was an ox, a condition known as boanthropy, and he lived like a wild animal for seven years, before making a full recovery and being restored to power.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Nebuchadnezzar during his lamentable but salutary attack of boanthropy, is regarded with a good deal of suspicion, if not dread, though it pays for its lodging by reason of its large appetite, which latter statement seems self-contradictory.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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The great, good-tempered fellow, as uncouth in its hairiness as Nebuchadnezzar during his lamentable but salutary attack of boanthropy, is regarded with
My Tropic Isle 1887
whichbe commented on the word boanthropy
The delusion that one is an ox.
May 12, 2008
yarb commented on the word boanthropy
E.g. in Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Unconsoled".
May 12, 2008
mollusque commented on the word boanthropy
Is this the result of unfettered bovilexia?
May 23, 2008