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Lycanthrope. World English Historical Dictionary

Lycanthrope. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Lycanthrope Also 7 lycanthrop. [ad. mod.L. lycanthrōp-us, ad. Gr. λυκάνθρωπ-ος lit. wolf-man, f. λύκο-ς wolf + ἄνθρωπος man.]

1   1.  One who is afflicted with LYCANTHROPY, q.v.

2 1621.  Molle, Camerar. Liv. Libr., IV. xiii. 276. The organs of the fantasie of such foolish Lycanthrops.

3 1679.  G. R., trans. Boaystuau’s Theat. World, III. 246. They will become Lycanthropes, and go naked like the Wolves.

4   2.  By mod. writers used as a synonym of WEREWOLF; one of those persons who (according to mediæval superstition) assumed the form of wolves.

5 1831.  A. Herbert, in Sir F. Madden, Will & Werwolf (1832), 16. Parthenophagy … is an enormity of the lycanthropes, and not of wolves.

6 1882.  St. James’s Gaz., 17 Feb., 7. These legends of the lycanthrope—the loupgarou—perhaps especially induce us to vilify the wolf.

7   fig.  1855.  Whittier, Arisen at Last, 16. Hereaway, The fell lycanthrope finds no prey.

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