semitaur

English

Alternative forms

semitaure, semitawre

Etymology

Latin semi-, 'half', + taurus, 'bull'.

Noun

semitaur (plural semitaurs)

A mythical beast, half man, half bull.
- 1592, Nicholas Breton, The pilgrimage to paradise, ioyned with the Countesse of Penbrookes loue, compiled in verse by Nicholas Breton Gentleman, Ioseph Barnes, page 8:
  Some semitawres, and some more halfe a beare
  Other halfe swine deepe wallowing in the miers.

References

“semitaur”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

muriates, seriatum

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