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cynanthropy Path.|sɪˈnænθrəpɪ|
[mod. f. Gr. κυνάνθρωπος lit. dog-man: in F. cynanthropie.]
A species of madness in which a man imagines himself to be a dog.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 266 There are some that behaue themselues like dogges and wolues..because they thinke they are transformed into those kinde of beasts, by..that malady, which is..named by the Græcians cynanthropie and lycanthropie. 1656in Blount Glossogr., Cynanthropie. 1755in Johnson. |