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‖ succuba|ˈsʌkjʊbə|
Pl. -bæ (8 -a's). Also 8 sucuba.
[late L. = strumpet, f. succubāre, f. suc- = sub- 2 + cub- to lie.]
= succubus.
1587Mirr. Mag., Humfrey Dk. Glouc. xi, That his auncient Grandame..Was a Feend of the kind that (Succubæ) some call. 1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. ii, I walke Naked betweene my succubæ. 1619Fletcher, etc. Knt. Malta v. ii, We'll call him Cacodemon, with his black gib there, his Succuba. 1620T. Scott God & King (1623) 80 Looke in the streete, if you can distinguish men and women asunder..if euery Succuba seemes not an Incubus. 1662M. W. Marriage Broaker 54 What's she must be my Masters Succuba. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 45. 2/1 As to the Succubusses, or Succuba's, the Case is..different. 1788Pasquin Childr. Thespis (1792) 187 By the Sucubae spawned. 1873Leland Egypt. Sketch-Bk. 175 The fair Hermelina, a charming Succuba, who had..been the true love for forty years of Benedict Berna. 1900Elworthy Horns of Honour ii. 88 Female demons, or succubæ, were the constant tempters of both St. Jerome and St. Anthony. 1906B. Capes Loaves & Fishes 143 That dead rogue is already forgathering with his succuba. |