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lycanthropy (medicine)


lycanthropy


1. The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.

2. <medicine> A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.

Origin: Gr., cf. F. Lycanthropie.

Source: Websters Dictionary