boanthropy

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noun

The delusion that one is an ox or cow.

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Meanings

nounboanthropy (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe delusion that one is an ox or cow.

    Many scholars have diagnosed Nebuchadnezzar's illness as a form of insania zoanthropica, such as boanthropy or lycanthropy, where a human being thinks himself or herself an ox or a wolf.

    2001, Mark Mangano, Esther & Daniel, page 211
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