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单词 lycanthrope
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lycanthropen.

Brit. /ˈlʌɪk(ə)nθrəʊp/, /lʌɪˈkanθrəʊp/, U.S. /ˈlaɪkənˌθroʊp/, /laɪˈkænˌθroʊp/
Forms: Also 1600s lycanthrop.
Etymology: < modern Latin lycanthrōpus, < Greek λυκάνθρωπος lit. wolf-man, < λύκος wolf + ἄνθρωπος man.
1. One who is afflicted with lycanthropy n.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delusion > types of delusion > person
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1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. iv. xiii. 276 The organs of the fantasie of such foolish Lycanthrops.
1679 G. Rose tr. P. Boaistuau Theatre of World iii. 246 They will become Lycanthropes, and go naked like the Wolves.
2. By modern writers used as a synonym of werewolf n.; one of those persons who (according to medieval superstition) assumed the form of wolves.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > werewolf
werewolfc1000
loup-garou1579
lycanthropus1584
lycanthrope1831
lycanthropist1831
turn-skin1831
1831 A. Herbert in Sir F. Madden Will. & Werwolf (1832) 16 Parthenophagy..is an enormity of the lycanthropes, and not of wolves.
1882 St. Jame's Gaz. 17 Feb. 7 These legends of the lycanthrope—the loupgarou—perhaps especially induce us to vilify the wolf.
figurative.1855 J. G. Whittier Arisen at Last 16 Hereaway, The fell lycanthrope finds no prey.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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