lemures
ghosts, especially those of a family’s dead, considered troublesome unless exorcised or appeased, as during the annual festival of Lemuralia.
Origin of lemures
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How to use lemures in a sentence
I had read of banshees, lemures and leprechauns; they were the ghosts and the fairies of ignorance but they were not like this.
The Blind Spot | Austin HallPhilosophy, never fit for the people, had entered the best houses, and the image of Epicurus had taken the place of the lemures.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems | Walter Savage LandorThe ghosts, or specters of the dead that came back to haunt and terrify the living were called lemures.
Romulus, Makers of History | Jacob AbbottTheir hypothetical common ancestor, the Archipithecus, may have descended directly or indirectly from a branch of the lemures.
The Last Link | Ernst HaeckelLemur, the name given to that low family of monkeys, is from the plural Latin word lemures, meaning ghost or spectre.
The Log of the Sun | William Beebe
British Dictionary definitions for lemures
/ (ˈlɛmjʊˌriːz) /
Roman myth the spirits of the dead
Origin of lemures
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