The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lycanthropist \Ly*can"thro*pist\, n. One affected by the disease lycanthropy.
Usage examples of "lycanthropist".
Forestus pronounces the man to be a lycanthropist, but he does not say that the poor fellow believed himself to be transformed into a wolf.
The lycanthropist dashes out of a window, springs into a well, and, after having struggled in the water for a few moments, rises from it, dripping, and invested with a goatskin which the devil has given him.
The lycanthropist falls into a cataleptic trance, during which his soul leaves his body, enters that of a wolf and ravens for blood.
However, he alludes to this superstition in his sermon on wild-men of the woods, but translates his lycanthropists to Spain.
It is worthy of remark that both lycanthropists and witches ascribed the power of disembodying themselves to the use of ointments.