Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
larvate : sometimes applied to certain diseases when their ordinary characters are masked or concealed, as typhoid fever.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Masked; clothed as with a mask.
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- adjective
Masked ; clothed as if with a mask.
Etymologies
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Latin larvatus bewitched. See larva.
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Examples
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Later, Lombroso, in a book teeming with doubtful or manifestly false evidence, finding his predecessor's theory too vague, attempts to give it more precision by substituting for neurosis in general a specific neurosis -- larvated epilepsy.
Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron 1877
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