Also 7 lycanthrop. [ad. mod.L. lycanthrōp-us, ad. Gr. λυκάνθρωπ-ος lit. wolf-man, f. λύκο-ς wolf + ἄνθρωπος man.]

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  1.  One who is afflicted with LYCANTHROPY, q.v.

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1621.  Molle, Camerar. Liv. Libr., IV. xiii. 276. The organs of the fantasie of such foolish Lycanthrops.

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1679.  G. R., trans. Boaystuau’s Theat. World, III. 246. They will become Lycanthropes, and go naked like the Wolves.

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  2.  By mod. writers used as a synonym of WEREWOLF; one of those persons who (according to mediæval superstition) assumed the form of wolves.

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1831.  A. Herbert, in Sir F. Madden, Will & Werwolf (1832), 16. Parthenophagy … is an enormity of the lycanthropes, and not of wolves.

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1882.  St. James’s Gaz., 17 Feb., 7. These legends of the lycanthrope—the loupgarou—perhaps especially induce us to vilify the wolf.

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  fig.  1855.  Whittier, Arisen at Last, 16. Hereaway, The fell lycanthrope finds no prey.

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