Also 7 lycanthrop. [ad. mod.L. lycanthrōp-us, ad. Gr. λυκάνθρωπ-ος lit. wolf-man, f. λύκο-ς wolf + ἄνθρωπος man.]
1. One who is afflicted with LYCANTHROPY, q.v.
1621. Molle, Camerar. Liv. Libr., IV. xiii. 276. The organs of the fantasie of such foolish Lycanthrops.
1679. G. R., trans. Boaystuaus Theat. World, III. 246. They will become Lycanthropes, and go naked like the Wolves.
2. By mod. writers used as a synonym of WEREWOLF; one of those persons who (according to mediæval superstition) assumed the form of wolves.
1831. A. Herbert, in Sir F. Madden, Will & Werwolf (1832), 16. Parthenophagy is an enormity of the lycanthropes, and not of wolves.
1882. St. Jamess Gaz., 17 Feb., 7. These legends of the lycanthropethe loupgarouperhaps especially induce us to vilify the wolf.
fig. 1855. Whittier, Arisen at Last, 16. Hereaway, The fell lycanthrope finds no prey.