Lemures meaning

lĕm'ə-rās', lĕm'yə-rēz'
The spirits of the dead considered in ancient Rome as frightening specters and often exorcised from homes in religious rituals.
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Evil, night-walking spirits of the dead.
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The spirits or ghosts of the dead.
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Origin of lemures

  • Latin Lemurēs
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Wiktionary

Lemures Sentence Examples

  • lemures, " ghosts"), the name applied by Linnaeus to certain peculiar Malagasy representatives of the order PRIMATES which do not come under the designation of either monkeys or apes, and, with allied animals from the same island and tropical Asia and Africa, constitute the sub-order Prosimiae, or Lemuroidea, the characteristics of which are given in the article just mentioned.

  • For the lemures were, like our unlaid ghosts, unburied, mischievous or inimical spirits, and these three days were nefasti or unlucky, because their malign influence was abroad..

  • The Romans, as we remarked above, distinguished between the Lemures or wandering mischievous ghosts and the Manes snugly interred and tended in the cemetery which was part of every Italian settlement.

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