Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fabulous animal, the same as
tragelaphus .
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By the mere force of things, and despite my conscientious efforts to the contrary, I was predestined to become what I am, a member of the romantic school, protesting against romanticism, a Utopian inculcating the doctrine of half-measures, an idealist unsuccessfully attempting to pass muster for a Philistine, a tissue of contradictions, resembling the double-natured hircocerf of scholasticism.
Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897
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