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hippocentaur|hɪpəʊˈsɛntɔː(r)|
[ad. L. hippocentaurus, a. Gr. ἱπποκένταυρος (f. ἵππο-ς horse + κένταυρος centaur), horse-centaur, opp. to ἰχθυοκένταυρος fish-centaur.]
A fabulous creature combining the forms of a man and a horse; a centaur.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxix. (1495) 832 Ipocentaurus is a beest wonderly shape, in whom is acountyd the kynde of man and of an horse.] 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1539) 37 a, He affirmeth, that he did se an Hippocentaure. 1601Holland Pliny I. 157 In Thessalie there was borne a monster called an Hippocentaure. 1674Dryden State Innoc. Apol., But how are poetical fictions, how are hippocentaurs and chimeras..to be imaged? 1880Muirhead Gaius iii. §97 If one stipulate for something that can have no existence, such as a hippocentaur, the stipulation is equally useless.
Hence hippocenˈtauric a., of the nature of a hippocentaur.
1614Jackson Creed iii. v. §15 A monstrous Hippocentaurique combination. |