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单词 succuba
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succuban.

/ˈsʌkjʊbə/
Forms: Plural succubæ (1700s succuba's). Also 1700s sucuba.
Etymology: late Latin = strumpet, < succubāre , < suc- = sub- prefix 1b + cub- to lie.
= succubus n.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > incubus or succubus
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1587 W. Baldwin et al. in J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) iii. Humfrey Plantagenet xi That his auncient Grandame..Was a Feend of the kind that (Succubæ) some call.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. ii. sig. D2v I walke Naked betweene my Succubæ . View more context for this quotation
1620 T. Scott High-waies of God (1623) 80 Looke in the streete, if you can distinguish men and women asunder..if euery Succuba seemes not an Incubus.
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mmmmm4/1 Wee'l call him Cacodemon, with his block gib there, his Succuba.
1662 M. W. Marriage Broaker 54 What's she must be my Masters Succuba.
1708 Brit. Apollo 14–16 July As to the Succubusses, or Succuba's, the Case is..different.
1788 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis iii. 24 By the Succubæ spawn'd.
1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 175 The fair Hermelina, a charming Succuba, who had..been the true love for forty years of Benedict Berna.
1900 F. T. Elworthy Horns of Honour ii. 88 Female demons, or succubæ, were the constant tempters of both St. Jerome and St. Anthony.
1906 B. Capes Loaves & Fishes 143 That dead rogue is already forgathering with his succuba.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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