English-Thai Dictionary
lycanthropy
N โรค ที่ หลง คิด ว่า ตัวเอง เป็น หมาป่า การ แปลงร่าง เป็น หมาป่า โดย ยัง มี ความคิด ความ ฉลาด เหมือน คน
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
LYCANTHROPY
n.[Gr. a wolf, and man. ] A kind of erratic melancholy.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
LYCANTHROPY
Ly *can "thro *py, n. Etym: [Gr. lycanthropie.]
1. The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf. Lowell.
2. (Med. )
Defn: A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.
New American Oxford Dictionary
lycanthropy
ly can thro py |līˈkanTHrəpē laɪˈkænθrəpi | ▶noun the supernatural transformation of a person into a wolf, as recounted in folk tales. • archaic a form of madness involving the delusion of being an animal, usually a wolf, with correspondingly altered behavior. DERIVATIVES ly can throp ic |ˌlīkənˈTHräpik |adjective ORIGIN late 16th cent. (as a supposed form of madness ): from modern Latin lycanthropia, from Greek lukanthrōpia, from lukos ‘wolf ’ + anthrōpos ‘human being, man. ’
Oxford Dictionary
lycanthropy
lycanthropy |lʌɪˈkanθrəpi | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the mythical transformation of a person into a wolf. • archaic a form of madness involving the delusion of being an animal, usually a wolf, with correspondingly altered behaviour. DERIVATIVES lycanthropic adjective ORIGIN late 16th cent. (as a supposed form of madness ): from modern Latin lycanthropia, from Greek lukanthrōpia, from lukos ‘wolf ’ + anthrōpos ‘man ’.
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