lycanthropia
Jan. 8th, 2010 07:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordI may no longer be using the Forgotten English calendar (this year, it's an origami-a-day thing) but I still have a couple left over from last year, and it's Friday ...
lycanthropia - "A variety of melancholy in which the person believes himself to be changed into a wolf, and imitates the voice and habits of that animal. —Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844"
Webster's 1913 and American Heritage concur, but both by redirecting to the second sense of lycanthropy to do so. One wonders what Dunglison would make of modern fantasy literature.
---L.
lycanthropia - "A variety of melancholy in which the person believes himself to be changed into a wolf, and imitates the voice and habits of that animal. —Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844"
Webster's 1913 and American Heritage concur, but both by redirecting to the second sense of lycanthropy to do so. One wonders what Dunglison would make of modern fantasy literature.
---L.
