theroid
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Ancient Greek θήρ (thḗr, “beast, fantastic animal”). Compare Theropoda.
Adjective edit
theroid (comparative more theroid, superlative most theroid)
- Bestial, resembling an animal.
- 1871, Henry Maudsley, Body and Mind[1], page 46:
- There is a class of idiots which may justly be designated theroid, so like brutes are the members of it.
- 1877, William Wotherspoon Ireland, On Idiocy and Imbecility[2], page 349:
- 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.
- 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:
- Man can not have arisen except from some more theroid form zoologically, and hence also morphologically.
- 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.
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
theroid (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of thyroid
- 1765, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman′s Monthly Intelligencer, volume 34, page 77:
- […] a ſwelling of the two theroid glands, lying on each ſide of the wind-pipe, […] .