lycanthropia

English

Noun

lycanthropia (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of lycanthropy
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , 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.
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