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onocentaur Mythol.|ɒnəʊˈsɛntɔː(r)|
[ad. late L. onocentaurus, a. Gr. ὀνοκένταυρος, f. ὄνος ass + κένταυρος centaur.]
A fabulous creature, a centaur with the body of an ass instead of that of a horse.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxix. (MS. Bodl.) ll. 280 b/1 Onocentaurus..is a beste wonderlich schape and..gendred bitwene an asse and a bolle. Ibid., But Phisiologus..seiþ þat Onocentaurus is compowned of þe schap of an asse and of a man.] 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 95 b, The Onocentaure is a Beast monstrous, halfe a Bull & halfe an Asse. 1601Chester Love's Mart., A Dialogue cxxxvii, The Onocentaur is a monstrous beast; Supposed halfe a man and halfe an asse. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 107 Gigantick Onocentaurs there he found, The tallest he in chains of darkness bound. 1845E. H. Noel Richter's Flower Pieces II. xv. 195 The true difference between hippocentaurs and onocentaurs. |