boanthropy

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The great, good-tempered fellow, as uncouth in its hairiness as Nebuchadnezzar during his lamentable but salutary attack of boanthropy, is regarded with

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  1. A form of madness in which the victim imagines himself to be an ox. The exact form of the disease, which would be Boanthropy, I have not found any notice of [though] Arnold (on Insanity) suggests that such may have been meant by the story of the Proetidis in Virgil Ecl. Pusey, Daniel, Lecture VII. 427.

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  • The great, good-tempered fellow, as uncouth in its hairiness as Nebuchadnezzar during his lamentable but salutary attack of boanthropy, is regarded with —  My Tropic Isle
 

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  1. Greek βούς, ox, + ἂνθρωπος, man.
 

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