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Definition of Succuba
1. Noun. A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men.
Definition of Succuba
1. n. A female demon or fiend. See Succubus.
Definition of Succuba
1. a succubus [n -BAS or -BAE] - See also: succubus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Succuba
Literary usage of Succuba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Well call him Cacodemon, with his black gib there, his succuba, ... [< AIL.
succubus, ч mase, form of L. succuba, regarded as fern, only : see succuba. ..."
2. Yale Studies in English edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Yale university New Haven (1903)
"Sir Mammon applies it to the partners of his lust, choosing ' succuba' in preference
to other words because of its application to the demons, ..."
3. Demoniality; Or, Incubi and Succubi: A Treatise Wherein is Shown that There by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (1879)
"... having guessed what that woman was, told Menippus that he had to deal with a
Compusa, that is a succuba Demon ; whereupon the bride vanished bewailing ..."
4. Demoniality; Or, Incubi and Succubi: A Treatise Wherein is Shown that There by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (1879)
"also relates the case of a young Scot, who, during many months, with closed doors
and windows, was visited in lys bed-room by a succuba Demon of the most ..."
5. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (2001)
"16) : The Incubus and succuba are not poetic creations, but part of the faith of
the Middle Ages, — heartily held by the wisest and best men, and confirmed ..."
6. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"... these cause inundations, many times shipwrecks, and deceive men divers ways,
as succuba, or otherwise, appearing most part (saith ..."
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