About The Word Incubus
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Incubus
Incubus Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Incubus?
[n] a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women
[n] someone who depresses or worries others [n] a situation resembling a terrifying dream Synonyms | Synonyms for Incubus: nightmare Related Terms | Find terms related to Incubus: afreet | Baba Yaga | bad dream | bale | barghest | bogey | bogeyman | brown study | bugaboo | bugbear | burden | burdening | burthen | cacodemon | cargo | charge | charging | cumber | cumbrance | daeva | daydream | deadweight | demon | devil | Dracula | drag | dream | dybbuk | evil spirit | fee-faw-fum | fiend | fiend from hell | Frankenstein | freight | frightener | genie | genius | ghost | ghoul | gyre | handicap | hellion | hobgoblin | holy terror | horror | incumbency | jinni | jinniyeh | lading | lamia | Lilith | load | loading | millstone | monster | nightmare | ogre | ogress | oppression | overload | overtaxing | overweighting | phantom | pipe dream | pressure | rakshasa | revenant | reverie | saddling | satan | scarebabe | scarecrow | scarer | shedu | specter | succubus | superincumbency | surcharge | taxing | terror | the undead | vampire | vision | werewolf | Wolf-man | yogini See Also | daemon | daimon | demon | devil | disagreeable person | fiend | situation | state of affairs | unpleasant person Incubus In Webster's Dictionary \In"cu*bus\, n.; pl. E. {Incubuses}, L. {Incubi}. [L.,
the nightmare. Cf. {Incubate}.]
1. 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 called succubi; those who appeared like
men incubi, though this distinction was not always
preserved. --Lecky.
2. (Med.) The nightmare. See {Nightmare}.
Such as are troubled with incubus, or witch-ridden,
as we call it. --Burton.
3. Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that
prevents the free use of the faculties.
Debt and usury is the incubus which weighs most
heavily on the agricultural resources of Turkey.
--J. L.
Farley.
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