Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
vampire .
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- noun Obsolete spelling of
vampire .
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Examples
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They were of the kind which is commonly called the vampyre, and measured from three to four feet between the expanded wings.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784
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He is called the vampyre Flood, and he didn't say, but I think he is descended from European royalty — a viscount or a discount or one of those.
You Suck Moore, Christopher, 1957- 2007
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"How should you like to be called a vampyre, and stared at as if you were some hideous natural phenomenon?"
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I enclose you Dr. Johnson's definition of a vampyre, which is as follows:
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That was indeed the weak point now of all his defences against whatever commands might be put upon him by his master, as we may now call the vampyre, although after all it was but the usual dominion of a strong mind over a weak one, for there was not so much in reality for the sexton to be afraid of as his own guilty conscience dictated to him.
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The landlord had just opened his mouth to make some remark, when he was stopped by the violent ringing of what he now called the vampyre's bell, since it proceeded from the room where the Hungarian nobleman was.
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"Ah! I like that a monstrous deal better than keeping watch for a vampyre, which is a sort of job that don't at all suit such a constitution as mine, do you see?"
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(However, I am refusing to use the too-smarmy spelling of "vampyre" and "vyrus" that permeates the book.)
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Vampyre Update kare11.com :: KARE 11 TV - News Article Girlfriend of 'vampyre' gubernatorial candidate is fired: The partner of the new gubernatorial candidate, Jonathon 'The Impaler' Sharkey, says she's been unjustly fired from her job.
Archive 2006-01-15 Bill Crider 2006
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They also speak of Weettako, a kind of vampyre or devil, into which those who have fed on human flesh are transformed.
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 John Franklin 1816
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