Ly*can"thro*py (?), n. [Gr. : cf. F. lycanthropie.]

1.

The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.

Lowell.

2. Med.

A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.

 

© Webster 1913.

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