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homuncule, -uncle|həʊˈmʌŋkjuːl, -ˈʌŋk(ə)l|
[ad. L. homunculus, (also in Eng. use) dim. of homo man. Cf. F. homuncule (18th c. in Littré).]
A little or diminutive man; a mannikin.
1656H. More Enthus. Tri. 46 That there is an artificiall way of making an Homunculus, and that the Fairies of the woods, Nymphs and Giants themselves had some such originall. 1696J. Edwards Demonstr. Exist. God ii. 124 Parcelsus's artificial homuncle. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy I. ii, Homunculus. 1839New Monthly Mag. LVI. 25 The door opened suddenly, and admitted an homuncule, of about four feet three.
Hence hoˈmuncular a., diminutive, pigmy.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 13 Delappius..not only saw these homuncular tadpoles, but pretended to trace one of them bursting through the tunic by which it was swaddled. |