INCUBUS
\ˈɪnkjuːbəs], \ˈɪnkjuːbəs], \ˈɪ_n_k_j_uː_b_ə_s]\
Definitions of INCUBUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night.
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The nightmare. See Nightmare.
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Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.
By Oddity Software
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A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night.
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The nightmare. See Nightmare.
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Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A sensation during sleep as of a weight lying on the breast, nightmare: any oppressive or stupefying influence:-pl. INCUBUSES, INCUBI.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A sensation of a distressing weight at the epigastrium during sleep, and of impossibility of motion, speech, or respiration; the patient at length awaking in terror, after extreme anxiety. Nightmare is often the effect of difficult digestion or of an uneasy position of the body. At other times, it occurs in consequence of severe emotions. The sensation of suffocation was formerly ascribed to the person's being possessed, and the male spirits were called incubes- the female succubes. The disease requires no particular treatment. The causes must be avoided.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
