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incubus
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WordNet
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n. a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women a situation resembling a terrifying dream [syn: nightmare ] someone who depresses or worries others [also: incubi (pl)]
Wikipedia
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Incubus is a 2006 horror thriller film by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment that was directed by Anya Camilleri and stars actress Tara Reid . The film was released on May 3, 2006 and had an internet premiere on AOL during Halloween 2006. An unrated version ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A bog-eyed incubus on day release from hell? ▪ From the beginning, however, the engineers, like the artillery, were free of the incubus of purchased commissions. ▪ Public services, by comparison, are an incubus .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incubus \In"cu*bus\, n.; pl. E. Incubuses , L. Incubi . [L., the nightmare. Cf. Incubate .] A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night. --Tylor. The devils who appeared in the female form were generally ...
Usage examples of incubus.
Young Irelanders, and most of the Old Irelanders, were exasperated, and in their speeches and newspapers denounced Lamartine as the enemy of liberty, the sycophant of England, and the incubus of the French provisional government.
Tutta la mia vita mi ero preoccupata per lei, ma ero così innamorata di Marty che me ne rimasi lì e non feci nulla, mentre lei languiva, si assuefaceva ai barbiturici, si sottometteva alle chirurgie plastiche e a tutte le altre cose che trasformarono la sua vita in notti insonni e incubi.
He is not the incubus of the demonologies who can steal the seed from sleeping men.
Whether the venereal delectation is greater or less with the Incubus devils in assumed bodies than it is in like circumstances with men in a true physical body, we may say this: It seems that, although the pleasure should naturally be greater when like disports with like, yet that cunning Enemy can so bring together the active and passive elements, not indeed naturally, but in such qualities of warmth and temperament, that he seems to excite no less degree of concupiscence.
In Aquitaine a woman had for six years been molested by an Incubus with incredible carnal abuse and lechery.
Nider, Formicarius, ix, writes: Incubi dicuntur ab incumbendo, hoc est struprando.
In contrast, we hear very little lately about incubi, elves and fairies.
Una simile possibilità aveva turbato lui assai più dei suoi compagni, perciò aveva tenuto per sé i suoi incubi della fine del mondo per paura di essere deriso.
Da dove si trovava non poteva vedere gli orrori che Tommy-Ray aveva portato con sé, ma li sentiva e i rumori erano quelli che sentiva negli incubi: gorgogliare di catarro, ansimare di concupiscenza.
Dallo squarcio emergevano i giganti dei suoi incubi infantili e presto avrebbero sollevato quel velo.
First, whether the abominable heresies can be multiplied throughout the world by those who give themselves to Incubi and Succubi.
Some of them were incubi, and some of them—well, I'm not quite certain whose fancy some of them catered to, but whosever it was, I'm sure they met it.
Because the people in our society who go to succubi and incubi are generally out for a cheap thrill, they're often the people who go after other thrills.
Unlike the Medvamp protesters, the succubi and incubi didn't cany signs or chant slogans.
Because the people in our society who go to succubi and incubi are generaUy out for a cheap thrill, the/re often the people who go after other thrills.