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lycanthropy


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lycanthropy  \Ly*can"thro*py\,  n.  [Gr.  ?:  cf  F.  lycanthropie.] 
  1.  The  supposed  act  of  turning  one's  self  or  another  person 
  into  a  wolf.  --Lowell. 
 
  2.  (Med.)  A  kind  of  erratic  melancholy,  in  which  the  patient 
  imagines  himself  a  wolf,  and  imitates  the  actions  of  that 
  animal. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  lycanthropy 
  n  :  (folklore)  the  magical  ability  of  a  person  to  assume  the 
  characteristics  of  a  wolf 




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