Definition of Lemures
Lemures
le·mu·res


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(adjective)
spirits or ghosts of the unburied dead, considered frightening or troublesome, exorcised from homes in early Roman religious rites;

e.g. Lemures are thought to have been the spirits of those not afforded proper burial when they died.



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