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Definition of Incubuses
1. incubus [n] - See also: incubus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incubuses
Literary usage of Incubuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Henry Beveridge (1845)
"... observations of certain days and certain months, familiar demons, ghosts, the
influence of the stars and wizards. metamorphoses, incubuses and ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1895)
"He cannot secure more as long as the monopoly of land and the various other legal
incubuses hedge him in and rob him, and no "patent device," such as the ..."
3. Mixed Essays, Irish Essays and Others: Irish Essays and Others by Matthew Arnold (1883)
"... and tremendous personages of that sort," and extolling Liberal England, free
from such incubuses, and enabled by that freedom to get "its manufacturing ..."
4. A Guide to the Middle English Metrical Romances Dealing with English and by Anna Hunt Billings (1901)
"... have been one of those spirits, called incubuses, who inhabit between the
earth and the moon, and who are of the nature partly of men, partly of angels. ..."
5. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"... Roman communion and the papal power, had published his Demonology (what a book
for a king !) and in his Demonology had admitted sorceries, incubuses, ..."
6. Old English Chronicles: Ethelwerd's Chronicle. Asser's Life of Alfred by John Allen Giles, Charles Bertram, William Gunn, Gildas, Nennius, Fabius Ethelwerdus (1901)
"For, as Apuleius informs us in his book concerning the Demon of Socrates, between
the moon and the earth inhabit those spirits, which we will call incubuses ..."
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