theroid

comparative more theroid · superlative most theroid

1. Bestial, resembling an animal.

   There is a class of idiots which may justly be designated theroid, so like brutes are the members of it.

   1871, Henry Maudsley, Body and Mind, page 46

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   Some imbecile children, without being so markedly theroid as this, are incorrigibly mischievous, and often show a surprising amount of cunning in carrying out what they design.

   1877, William Wotherspoon Ireland, On Idiocy and Imbecility, page 349

   Man can not have arisen except from some more theroid form zoologically, and hence also morphologically.

   1912, Aleš Hrdlička, William Henry Holmes, Bailey Willis, Frederic Eugene Wright, Clarence Norman Fenner, Early Man in South America, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2

   1994, Chantal Zabus, Prospero′s Progeny Curses Back: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Postpatriarchal Rewritings of The Tempest, Theo D′Haen, Hans Bertens (editors),Liminal Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (post-)Colonial, and the (post-)Feminist, page 119, Whatever Caliban′s ancestry may be, it remains that the West Indian Caliban is a poet whose poetic topography covers the whole of the Caribbean “trough” but whose harrowing experience of exile has turned him into a theroid monster.

1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of thyroid.

   […]a ſwelling of the two theroid glands, lying on each ſide of the wind-pipe,[…].

   1765, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman′s Monthly Intelligencer, volume 34, page 77