Meaning of theroid | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Bestial, resembling an animal.
2. Obsolete spelling of thyroid.
   alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“There is a class of idiots which may justly be designated theroid, so like⟳ brutes are the members of it.”

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“[…]a ſwelling of the two theroid glands, lying on each ſide of the wind-pipe,[…].”

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