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Lycanthropia


Lyˊcan-thro′pi-a

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Noun.
[NL.]
See
Lycanthropy
, 2.

Definition 2024


lycanthropia

lycanthropia

English

Noun

lycanthropia (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of lycanthropy
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.141:
      Lycanthropia [] or wolf-madness, when men run howling about graves and fields in the night, and will not be persuaded but that they are wolves, or some such beasts.