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lucifugous, a. Nat. Hist.|l(j)uːˈsɪfjʊgəs|
[f. L. lūcifug-us, f. lūc(i)-, lūx light + fug-ĕre to fly: see -ous.]
Shunning the light.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. vi.–vii. 211 Such designes as these were Lucifugous, and would not endure the face of Heaven. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. i. (1701) 14/1 These ill Dæmons..Aquatile, and Subterraneous, and Lucifugous. 1737Ozell Rabelais II. 121 note, Lucifugous Nycticoraces. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 599/2 The habits of which [animals] are more completely lucifugous and retired than any others. 1865F. Oakeley Hist. Notes 36 Owls and bats and other such shy and lucifugous creatures.
So luˈcifugal a., in the same sense.
1889in Syd. Soc. Lex. |