theroid

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek θήρ (thḗr, “beast, fantastic animal”). Compare Theropoda.

Adjective

theroid (comparative more theroid, superlative most theroid)

1. Bestial, resembling an animal.
   • 1871, Henry Maudsley, Body and Mind‎^[1], page 46:

     There is a class of idiots which may justly be designated theroid, so like brutes are the members of it.

   • 1877, William Wotherspoon Ireland, On Idiocy and Imbecility‎^[2], page 349:

     Some imbecile children, without being so markedly theroid as this, are incorrigibly mischievous, and often show a surprising amount of cunning in carrying out what they design.

   • 1912, Aleš Hrdlička, William Henry Holmes, Bailey Willis, Frederic Eugene Wright, Clarence Norman Fenner, Early Man in South America, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2:

     Man can not have arisen except from some more theroid form zoologically, and hence also morphologically.

   • 1994, Chantal Zabus, Prospero′s Progeny Curses Back: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Postpatriarchal Rewritings of The Tempest, Theo D′Haen, Hans Bertens (editors),Liminal Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (post-)Colonial, and the (post-)Feminist, page 119,

     Whatever Caliban′s ancestry may be, it remains that the West Indian Caliban is a poet whose poetic topography covers the whole of the Caribbean “trough” but whose harrowing experience of exile has turned him into a theroid monster.

Etymology 2

Adjective

theroid (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of thyroid.
   • 1765, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman′s Monthly Intelligencer, volume 34, page 77:

     […] a ſwelling of the two theroid glands, lying on each ſide of the wind-pipe, […] .

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