incubus
noun
an imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons, especially one fabled to have sexual intercourse with women during their sleep.
incubi
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pluralof incubus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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All so they can keep expanding, squatting over lives like feudal incubi.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2018
They form and re-form bureaucratic incubi that mock Us with Our own impotence and trip Us up with rules only They understand.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2011
This situation crops up in folk literature, with tales of changelings or of sleeping women seduced and impregnated by incubi, and occasionally appears in popular entertainments like The Bad Seed and Rosemary's Baby.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the orthodox regarded the Cabalists as magicians and their spirits as foul incubi.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Edwin Sidney Hartland
When they were male, they were called incubi; and when female, succubi.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay
