lamia

How To Use lamia In A Sentence

• Leinweber discusses the development of beliefs about sorcerers and female vampires (lamiae) in Greek and Roman texts through Apuleius and shows how they prefigured modern witchcraft and vampire legends.
• At this time we could hear and see the German half-track vehicles entering Lamia, thus effectively cutting off our retreat in that direction even if we had transport. Alan Glass
• The poems are the three panegyrics with their appendixes; two epithalamia; an acknowledgment to Faustus of Reji (now Riez), a eulogy of Narbonne, or rather, of two citizens of Narbonne; a description of the castle (burgas) of Leontius, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
• Palawan (along with the Calamianes and the island of Mindoro) was rifted (below water) from the Asian mainland approximately 32 million years ago, transported through seafloor spreading across the growing South China Sea, added to the growing Philippine Archipelago approximately 17 million years ago, and uplifted above water approximately 5-10 million years ago. Palawan rain forests
• Next in frequency are the applications for private literary contributions, -- such as epithalamia, obituaries, addresses for lovers, and the like. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
• Another explores the death of Mozart and Van Gogh as the result of haunting by lamia.
• And "lamia" represents the original Lilith, a spirit of the night who in Hebrew legend is the demon wife of Adam. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
• Also unlike Mom, he thought it was a good idea to find out what we could about the lamia. Slayed
• Mesopotamiæ, in qua et fuit martyrizatus secundum quosdam, rursumque post sexaginta et tres annos recuperatum corpus in suam fuisse Ecclesiam restitutum, videlicet in Calamia, atque in eiusdem recuperationis signum certum dimiserunt isti, et dimittunt extra feretri loculum dependere brachium dextrum, cum manu quæ tetigisse creditur pia resurgentis vulnera Christi. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
• In this case, the five repetitions of ‘joy’ even have a possible numerological significance, since five is a ‘nuptial number’ frequently used in epithalamia.