Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lycanthropy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
lycanthropy , 2.
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- noun Alternative form of
lycanthropy .
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Examples
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The most known are these, lycanthropia, hydrophobia, chorus sancti Viti.
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'Only a case of lycanthropia,' remarked Mr. Lindsay, as coolly as if that settled everything about it and lycanthropia, horror and all, at once.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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(noun) - (1) A variety of melancholy in which the person believes himself to be changed into a wolf, and imitates the voice and habits of that animal.
--Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844
(2) A madness proceeding from the bite of a mad wolf, whence men imitate the howling of wolves.
--Nathaniel Bailey's Etymological English Dictionary, 1749
(3) Unlycanthropize, to change a man turned into a wolf back into a man again.
--T. Lewis Davies' Supplementary English Glossary, 1881
January 16, 2018