succubae

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

“succubae” is listed under Succuba.

Suc′cu·ba noun; pl. Succubae (#).

Origin: NL., fr. L. succubare to lie under; sub under + cubare to lie down; cf. L. succuba, succubo, one who lies under another.

A female demon or fiend. See Succubus.

Though seeming in shape a woman natural Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call.— Mirror for Magistrates

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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