incubus
(noun) a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women
incubus
(noun) someone who depresses or worries others
nightmare, incubus
(noun) a situation resembling a terrifying dream
Source: WordNet® 3.1
incubus (plural incubi or incubuses)
(mediaeval folklore) An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.
Antonym: succubus
Hypernyms: evil spirit, spirit
A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.
Synonym: nightmare
(by extension) Any oppressive thing or person; a burden.
(entomology) One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily Aphidiinae.
Source: Wiktionary
In"cu*bus, n.; pl. E. Incubuses, L. Incubi. Etym: [L., the nightmare. Cf. Incubate.]
1. A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night. Tylor. The devils who appeared in the female form were generally called succubi; those who appeared like men incubi, though this distinction was not always preserved. Lecky.
2. (Med.)
Definition: The nightmare. See Nightmare. Such as are troubled with incubus, or witch-ridden, as we call it. Burton.
3. Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties. Debt and usury is the incubus which weighs most heavily on the agricultural resources of Turkey. J. L. Farley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 November 2024
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
