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Definition of 'theroid'

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Compare Theropoda.

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Bestial, resembling an animal.
  • * 1871 , Henry Maudsley, Body and Mind , page 46,
    • There is a class of idiots which may justly be designated theroid , so like brutes are the members of it.
  • * 1877 , William Wotherspoon Ireland, On Idiocy and Imbecility , page 349,
    • Some imbecile children, without being so markedly theroid as this, are incorrigibly mischievous, and often show a surprising amount of cunning in carrying out what they design.
  • * 1912 , Aleš Hrdli?ka, William Henry Holmes, Bailey Willis, Frederic Eugene Wright, Clarence Norman Fenner, Early Man in South America , U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2,
    • Man can not have arisen except from some more theroid form zoologically, and hence also morphologically.
  • * 1994 , Chantal Zabus, Prospero?s Progeny Curses Back: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Postpatriarchal Rewritings of The Tempest'', Theo D?Haen, Hans Bertens (editors),''Liminal Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (post-)Colonial, and the (post-)Feminist , page 119,
    • Whatever Caliban?s ancestry may be, it remains that the West Indian Caliban is a poet whose poetic topography covers the whole of the Caribbean “trough” but whose harrowing experience of exile has turned him into a theroid monster.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • * 1765 , The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman?s Monthly Intelligencer , Volume 34, page 77,
    • .

    Similar to 'theroid'

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