"theroid" meaning in English

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      "form": "more theroid",
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          "ref": "1871, Henry Maudsley, Body and Mind, page 46:",
          "text": "There is a class of idiots which may justly be designated theroid, so like brutes are the members of it.",
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          "ref": "1877, William Wotherspoon Ireland, On Idiocy and Imbecility, page 349:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1912, Aleš Hrdlička, William Henry Holmes, Bailey Willis, Frederic Eugene Wright, Clarence Norman Fenner, Early Man in South America, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2:",
          "text": "Man can not have arisen except from some more theroid form zoologically, and hence also morphologically.",
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          "text": "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,\nWhatever 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."
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        "Bestial, resembling an animal."
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          "ref": "1765, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman′s Monthly Intelligencer, volume 34, page 77:",
          "text": "[…]a ſwelling of the two theroid glands, lying on each ſide of the wind-pipe,[…].",
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        "Obsolete spelling of thyroid."
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1877, William Wotherspoon Ireland, On Idiocy and Imbecility, page 349:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Aleš Hrdlička, William Henry Holmes, Bailey Willis, Frederic Eugene Wright, Clarence Norman Fenner, Early Man in South America, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2:",
          "text": "Man can not have arisen except from some more theroid form zoologically, and hence also morphologically.",
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          "text": "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,\nWhatever 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."
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