Lycanthropia

Full definition of lycanthropia

Noun

1. Alternative form of lycanthropy
• 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 141:Lycanthropia ... or wolf-madness, when men run howling about graves and fields in the night, and will not be persuaded but that they are wolves, or some such beasts.