Path. [mod. f. Gr. κυνάνθρωπος lit. dog-man: in F. cynanthropie.] A species of madness in which a man imagines himself to be a dog.
1594. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. 266. There are some that behaue themselues like dogges and wolues … because they thinke they are transformed into those kinde of beasts, by … that malady, which is … named by the Græcians cynanthropie and lycanthropie.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr., Cynanthropie.
1755. in Johnson.
