Obs. Pl. Lycanthropi. Mod.L. form of LYCANTHROPE.
1584. R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., V. i. (1886), 72. Another being Lycanthropus in the forme of a woolfe, had his woolves feet cut off.
a. 1627. Middleton, Changeling, III. iii. The swift lycanthropi, that walk the round, We’ll tear their wolvish skins, and save the sheep.
1657. Trapp, Comm. Job v. 22. 58. Such Lycanthropi, or beasts in the shape of men, Paul fought with at Ephesus.
