单词 | lycanthrope |
释义 | lycanthropen. 1. One who is afflicted with lycanthropy n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delusion > types of delusion > person lycanthrope1621 lycanthropist1831 megalomaniac1885 micromaniac1902 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1621 |
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