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Homunculi

Homunculus \Ho*mun"cu*lus\, n.; pl. Homunculi. [L., dim. of homo man.] A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.
--Sterne.

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homunculi

n. (plural of homunculus English)

WordNet
homunculus
  1. n. a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal [syn: manikin, mannikin]

  2. a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell

  3. [also: homunculi (pl)]

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Usage examples of "homunculi".

Not to mention how easy it would be for some sorcerer to create his own army of homunculi and hire it out to anyone with a grudge against the established order.

I think there's one single mind controlling all the homunculi, jumping from body to body.

So homunculi were the only route open to his developing teenage libido short of using his hand.

To take instead of negotiate or, in the case of normal homunculi, be given freely.

He'd heard rumors about homunculi being abused, some of them even having to be recycled and replaced.

The very fact that thou canst breathe must be by the arts of some homunculi or hob, smarter than thou, who doth sit upon thy shoulder and whisper in thy ear, 'breathe in, breathe out' else surely thou wouldst cease in this vital activity for lack of thought.

Most of the homunculi had pulled away from her, but those attached with umbilical cords were as trapped as she was.

Belbo was obsessed by the Plan, and into the Plan we had put all sorts of other ingredients: Rosicrucians, Synarchy, Homunculi, the Pendulum, the Tower, the Druids, the Ennoia.

This is the source of Lorenza’s passion for homunculi, I said to myself.

In Paracelsus there are i prescriptions that say homunculi must be grown at the internal temperature of a horse.

According to our host, these homunculi speak to him, tell him secrets, utter prophecies.