Pl. -bæ (8 -a’s). Also 8 sucuba. [late L. = strumpet, f. succubāre, f. suc- = SUB- 2 + cub- to lie.] = SUCCUBUS.
1587. Mirr. Mag., Humfrey Dk. Glouc., xi. That his auncient Grandame … Was a Feend of the kind that (Succubæ) some call.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., II. ii. I walke Naked betweene my succubæ.
1619. Fletcher, etc., Knt. Malta, V. ii. We’ll call him Cacodemon, with his black gib there, his Succuba.
1620. T. Scott, God & King (1623), 80. Looke in the streete, if you can distinguish men and women asunder by their apparell, or behaviour, if euery Succuba seemes not an Incubus.
1662. M. W., Marriage Broaker, 54. What’s she must be my Masters Succuba.
1708. Brit. Apollo, No. 45. 2/1. As to the Succubusses, or Succuba’s, the Case is … different.
1788. Pasquin, Childr. Thespis (1792), 187. By the Sucubae spawned.
1873. Leland, Egypt. Sketch-Bk., 175. The fair Hermelina, a charming Succuba, who had … been the true love for forty years of Benedict Berna.
1900. Elworthy, Horns of Honour, ii. 88. Female demons, or succubæ, were the constant tempters of both St. Jerome and St. Anthony.
1906. B. Capes, Loaves & Fishes, 143. That dead rogue is already forgathering with his succuba.
