lamian.

/ˈleɪmɪə/

Forms: Middle English lamya, Middle English– lamia. plural Middle English lamie, 1600s, 1800s lamiæ, 1800s lamias. Also (anglicized) Middle English lamȝe, Middle English, 1500s lamye, 1700s lamie.

Etymology: Latin lamia a witch who was supposed to suck children's blood, a sorceress, also, a kind of flatfish, a species of owl, < Greek Λάμια a fabulous monster, also, a fish of prey. Compare French lamie.

1. A fabulous monster supposed to have the body of a woman, and to prey upon human beings and suck the blood of children. Also, a witch, she-demon.The word is used in early translations of the Bible in Isaiah xxxiv. 15 and Lamentations iv. 3, where the King James version has respectively ‘shrichowle’, margin ‘Or, night-monster’, and ‘sea monsters’, margin ‘Or, sea calues’.

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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > types of

warlockOE

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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxxiv. 15 There shal lyn lamya..and he fyndeth to himself reste.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lam. iv. 3 The cruel beestis clepid lamya, nakeden ther tetes, ȝeeuen ther whelpus souken.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xlviii. 1200 In Sicia beþ bestes wiþ schappe of men and feet of hors. And suche wonderful bestes beþ ycleped lamie amonge many men.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. i. i. 533 Apollonius..by some probable coniectures found her out to be a Serpent, a Lamia. [Hence 1820 Keats (title) Lamia.]

1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iv. sig. I^v Wheres the Lamia That teares my entrailes?

1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (1680) 13 For here you shall be quickly destroy'd under pretence of kindness, as Men were by the Lamiæ of old.

1756 E. Perronet Mitre i. xi. 3 As plump as Lamies fed with fawn.

1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves xv. 255 Troops of lamias, female evil spirits.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 140 They are the Lamiæ, wenches vile, With brazen brows and lips that smile.

†2. Ichthyology. In Willoughby's and some later classifications, a genus of sharks. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Carcharinidae > member of genus Carcharias

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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Fish Canis Carcharias, or Lamia, the White Shark.

1776 J. Neill 23 Serm. 214 Whatever kind of fish it was, whether it was a whale or a lamia,..where is the occasion for..condemning this passage of Holy Writ as fabulous?

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3. Entomology. A genus of longicorn beetles (J. C. Fabricius, 1775). (In recent dictionaries.)

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	lamia
释义	lamian. /ˈleɪmɪə/ Forms: Middle English lamya, Middle English– lamia. plural Middle English lamie, 1600s, 1800s lamiæ, 1800s lamias. Also (anglicized) Middle English lamȝe, Middle English, 1500s lamye, 1700s lamie. Etymology: Latin lamia a witch who was supposed to suck children's blood, a sorceress, also, a kind of flatfish, a species of owl, < Greek Λάμια a fabulous monster, also, a fish of prey. Compare French lamie. 1. A fabulous monster supposed to have the body of a woman, and to prey upon human beings and suck the blood of children. Also, a witch, she-demon.The word is used in early translations of the Bible in Isaiah xxxiv. 15 and Lamentations iv. 3, where the King James version has respectively ‘shrichowle’, margin ‘Or, night-monster’, and ‘sea monsters’, margin ‘Or, sea calues’. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > types of warlockOE Catathlebac1300 lamiaa1382 shrimp?a1400 thing1888 snallygaster1940 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxxiv. 15 There shal lyn lamya..and he fyndeth to himself reste. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lam. iv. 3 The cruel beestis clepid lamya, nakeden ther tetes, ȝeeuen ther whelpus souken. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xlviii. 1200 In Sicia beþ bestes wiþ schappe of men and feet of hors. And suche wonderful bestes beþ ycleped lamie amonge many men. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. i. i. 533 Apollonius..by some probable coniectures found her out to be a Serpent, a Lamia. [Hence 1820 Keats (title) Lamia.] 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iv. sig. I^v Wheres the Lamia That teares my entrailes? 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (1680) 13 For here you shall be quickly destroy'd under pretence of kindness, as Men were by the Lamiæ of old. 1756 E. Perronet Mitre i. xi. 3 As plump as Lamies fed with fawn. 1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves xv. 255 Troops of lamias, female evil spirits. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 140 They are the Lamiæ, wenches vile, With brazen brows and lips that smile. †2. Ichthyology. In Willoughby's and some later classifications, a genus of sharks. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Carcharinidae > member of genus Carcharias white shark1673 lamia1728 Gangetic shark1879 sand-shark1882 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Fish Canis Carcharias, or Lamia, the White Shark. 1776 J. Neill 23 Serm. 214 Whatever kind of fish it was, whether it was a whale or a lamia,..where is the occasion for..condemning this passage of Holy Writ as fabulous? Categories » 3. Entomology. A genus of longicorn beetles (J. C. Fabricius, 1775). (In recent dictionaries.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1382
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