centaurdom
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]centaurdom (uncountable)
- The world or realm of centaurs.
- 2020, Sean Magee, In Praise of Famous Horses:
- Labelled 'the most famous and wisest of all the centaurs' by one commentator, Chiron represented the acceptable face of centaurdom.
- The condition of being, or resembling, a centaur.
- 2014, Gilbert Bonifas, Martine Monacelli, Southern Horrors: Northern Visions of the Mediterranean World, page 8:
- Byron, who mocked the institution of the haremlik in Don Juan, saw little to distinguish the horrors of Muslim treatment of women from those of the Christian moral centaurdom of marriage.