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specter
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1 specter
A mental representation of some haunting experience:
— It aroused specters from his past.
synoniemen: ghost, shade, spectre, spook, wraith.
Roget 980:
demon,
daemon,
demonry†,
demonology;
evil genius,
fiend,
familiar,
daeva†,
devil;
bad spirit,
unclean spirit;
cacodemon†,
incubus,
Eblis,
shaitan†,
succubus,
succuba;
Frankenstein's monster;
Titan,
Shedim,
Mephistopheles,
Asmodeus†,
Moloch,
Belial,
Ahriman†;
fury,
harpy;
Friar Rush.
vampire,
ghoul;
afreet†,
barghest†,
Loki;
ogre,
ogress;
gnome,
gin,
jinn,
imp,
deev†,
lamia†;
bogie,
bogeyman,
bogle†;
nis†,
kobold†,
flibbertigibbet,
fairy,
brownie,
pixy,
elf,
dwarf,
urchin;
Puck,
Robin Goodfellow;
leprechaun,
Cluricaune†,
troll,
dwerger†,
sprite,
ouphe†,
bad fairy,
nix,
nixie,
pigwidgeon†,
will-o'-the wisp.
[Supernatural appearance]
ghost,
revenant,
specter,
apparition,
spirit,
shade,
shadow,
vision;
hobglobin,
goblin,
orc;
wraith,
spook,
boggart†,
banshee,
loup-garou [Fr.],
lemures†;
evil eye.
merman,
mermaid,
merfolk†;
siren;
satyr,
faun;
manito†,
manitou,
manitu.
possession,
demonic possession,
diabolic possession;
insanity
etc.
503.
[in jest, in science]
Maxwell's demon.
[person possessed by a demon]
demoniac.
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Roget 846:
ugliness
etc.
adj.;
deformity,
inelegance;
acomia†;
disfigurement
etc.
(blemish)
848;
want of symmetry,
inconcinnity†;
distortion
etc.
243;
squalor
etc.
(uncleanness)
653.
forbidding countenance,
vinegar aspect,
hanging look,
wry face,
spretae injuria formae"
[Vergil].
[person who is ugly]
eyesore,
object,
witch,
hag,
figure,
sight,
fright;
monster;
dog [Coll.],
woofer [Coll.],
pig [Coll.];
octopus,
specter,
scarecrow,
harridan†,
satyr†,
toad,
monkey,
baboon,
Caliban,
Aesop†,
monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum [Lat.]
[Vergil].
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Nederlands: schim, geest, spook
2 specter
A ghostly appearing figure.
synoniemen: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, spectre.
Roget 443:
dim sight,
dull sight half sight,
short sight,
near sight,
long sight,
double sight,
astigmatic sight,
failing sight;
dimsightedness
&c.;
purblindness,
lippitude†;
myopia,
presbyopia†;
confusion of vision;
astigmatism;
color blindness,
chromato pseudo blepsis†,
Daltonism;
nyctalopia†;
strabismus,
strabism†,
squint;
blearedness†,
day blindness,
hemeralopia†,
nystagmus;
xanthocyanopia†,
xanthopsia [Med.];
cast in the eye,
swivel eye,
goggle-eyes;
obliquity of vision.
winking
etc.
v.;
nictitation;
blinkard†,
albino.
dizziness,
swimming,
scotomy†;
cataract;
ophthalmia.
[Limitation of vision]
blinker;
screen
etc.
(hider)
530.
[Fallacies of vision]
deceptio visus [Lat.];
refraction,
distortion,
illusion,
false light,
anamorphosis†,
virtual image,
spectrum,
mirage,
looming,
phasma†;
phantasm,
phantasma†,
phantom;
vision;
specter,
apparition,
ghost;
ignis fatuus [Lat.]
etc.
(luminary)
423;
specter of the Brocken;
magic mirror;
magic lantern
etc.
(show)
448;
mirror lens
etc.
(instrument)
445.
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Nederlands: spook, geest
Pools: mamidło, widmo, widziadło, zjawa
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