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UK
/ˈɪnkjuːbəs/
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NOUN
- someone who depresses or worries others
- a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women
- a situation resembling a terrifying dream
How To Use incubus In A Sentence
- And I let Art come in like an incubus, like a ghost that was robbing me of my life. GO!
- When by our continued posture in sleep, some uneasy sensations are produced, we either gradually awake by the exertion of volition, or the muscles connected by habit with such sensations alter the position of the body; but where the sleep is uncommonly profound, and those uneasy sensations great, the disease called the incubus, or nightmare, is produced. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- We're calling the film Incubus because we looked the word up in the dictionary and thought it sounded enigmatic.
- A phantom of air, an abstraction of the dawn and of vesper sun-lights, a bodiless sylph on the one hand; on the other a gross carnal monster, like the Miltonic Asmodai, "the fleshliest incubus" among the fiends, and yet so far ennobled into interest by his intellectual power, and by the grandeur of misanthropy! Biographical Essays
- Has anyone had any experiences with what might be considered a succubus or incubus?
- The rule, Sic vos non vobis, never altogether to be got rid of in mens Industry, now presses with such incubus weight, that Industry must shake it off, or utterly be strangled under it; and, alas, can as yet but gasp and rave, and aimlessly struggle, like one in the final deliration. Paras. 20-39
- He had exploded the scholastic system, which had become a mere mass of logomachies and an incubus upon scientific progress. The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
- For some years it was left a roofless ruin, and a building designed for the parish church was afterwards erected within the nave, roofed over at the level of the triforium, and used as a place of worship till 1875, when a new church built in excambion by the Earl of Lothian was opened for worship, and the abbey ruin can now be viewed "clear of that incubus upon its lovely proportions. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
- Teutonic 'nightmare,' French _cauchemar_ (_mara_, an incubus, or succuba), belong in this class of malefic ghosts. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
- The incubus, from the Latin for "nightmare, " is a demon that sexually assaults women, and sometimes men, while they are asleep.
