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lycanthropic

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English

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Etymology

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From lycanthrope +‎ -ic.

Adjective

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lycanthropic (comparative more lycanthropic, superlative most lycanthropic)

  1. Of or pertaining to lycanthropy.
    • 2015, “512”, performed by Lamb of God:
      Lycanthropic survival instincts
      Embrace the beast and shun the weak
      Awake the primal one that sleeps inside
      Or feel the shiver running through your spine
  2. Of or pertaining to lycanthropes.
    • 2007 February 18, Dave Kehr, “A Creepy Stash of Movie Magic, Lovingly Amassed”, in New York Times[1]:
      He had kept the silver wolf’s head cane ornament that Claude Rains used to kill his lycanthropic son, Lon Chaney Jr., in “The Wolf Man” in 1941.

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