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Meaning of theroid | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

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,[…].”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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