Lemures

Word LEMURES
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Hyphenation ‖Lem u res
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Definitions and meanings of "Lemures"

What do we mean by lemures?

The spirits of the dead considered in ancient Rome as frightening specters and often exorcised from homes in religious rituals. noun plural

Among the ancient Romans, the spirits of the departed considered as evil-disposed specters or ghosts, who were supposed to do mischief at night to the living, and were exorcised annually with a ceremonial ritual by the head of each household, at midnight on May 9th, 11th, and 13th, on which days was celebrated the festival called lemuralia or lemuria.

In zoology:

Lemurs: equivalent to Lemuroidea.

A group of noctuid moths.

Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters. noun plural

The spirits or ghosts of the dead. noun

The spirits or ghosts of the dead in the Roman mythology, considered as troublesome unless exorcised or appeased.

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The word "lemures" in example sentences

Coals glowed red in several braziers to take the chill out of the room, and the servants moved like lemures in and out of the shadows. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

“No farmer will fell the forest around it for fear of angering the lemures.” ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

For if no one has seen farfadets, or lemures, or dives, or peris, or demons, or cacodemons, the predictions of astrologers have often been found true. ❋ Unknown (2007)

That way, they belong to old Egypt and will not become lemures to haunt Rome. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

Not being given to the fear of larvae and lemures, and also knowing that a mistake is easily committed in a great house like that, and that my visitor might have made one, I grew drowsy in a little while, and soon fell asleep again. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Lemures or larvae, and Ursula, she said to me that she had been young, young as me; they were all human and now they are lemures/' ❋ Rice, Anne, 1941- (1999)

On leaving human bodies they become lares if they have shown themselves good, if evil, lemures or larvae. ❋ Rice, Anne, 1941- (1999)

* [573] Nocturnos lemures, portentaque Thessala finxit ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

We had hardly reached the accustomed spot, when we both saw her at once gliding towards us; punctually as the ancient writers describe the motion of their ‘lemures, which swoon along the ground, neither marking the sand nor bending the herbage. ❋ Unknown (1921)

I had read of banshees, lemures and leprechauns; they were the ghosts and the fairies of ignorance but they were not like this. ❋ Austin Hall (1908)

In the old times the Romans had their lares, or spirits of those who had led virtuous lives; their larvæ or lemures, the spirits of the wicked; their manes, the spirits of those of whom the merits were doubtful. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Swarms of ill-omened turkey-buzzards were the only living creatures visible "like foul _lemures_ flitting in the gloom." ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)

In the old times the Romans had their lares, or spirits of those who had led virtuous lives; their larvae or lemures, the spirits of the wicked; their manes, the spirits of those of whom the merits were doubtful. ❋ John William Draper (1846)

Not being given to the fear of _larvae_ and _lemures_, and also knowing that a mistake is easily committed in a great house like that, and that my visitor might have made one, I grew drowsy in a little while, and soon fell asleep again. ❋ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1843)

That was no superhuman voice — no yell of nightly lemures, but the death-cry, if I err not more widely, of some frail mortal like ourselves. ❋ Henry William Herbert (1832)

‘Somnio nocturnos lemures portentaque Thessalia vides’. ❋ Unknown (1827)

'Somnio nocturnos lemures portentaque Thessalia vides'. ❋ Giacomo Casanova (1761)

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