incubus

incubus englannista suomeksi

1. incubus, miespuolinen demoni

2. painajainen

3. pahanilmanlintu

0. Substantiivi

1. incubus, miespuolinen demoni">miespuolinen demoni

incubus englanniksi

1. An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.

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2. A feeling of oppression during sleep, paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.

(syn)

3. http://books.google.ca/books?id=HCBOEAAAQBAJ|R. Burton with W.H. Gass, ''The Anatomy of Melancholy'', NYRB Classics ser. (New York: New York Review Books, 2001, orig. 1932), (ISBN), vol. 1, p. 249:

it increaseth fearful dreams, ''incubus'', night-walking, crying out, and much unquietness (..).

4. Any oppressive thing or person; a burden.

5. August 1935, (w), ''(w)'', "The Treader of the Dust":

Again he felt the impulse of flight: but his body was a dry dead incubus that refused to obey his volition.

6. (quote-journal)

7. (quote-text)|title=The Great Nation|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2003|pages=132–3

8. One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily (taxfmt).

9. An incubus, evil spirit

10. A nightmare, horrible dream

11. A burden, obsession, yoke

12. the (l), (l)

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