Definition of "centaur" [cen•taur]

• Greek Mythology One of a race of monsters having the head, arms, and trunk of a man and the body and legs of a horse. (noun)

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• "˜Some centaur does not have a tail™ to be contradictories, but both to be false because the subject-term ˜centaur™ is empty."
• "It's possible; a centaur is half-man, half-horse, and you can see what part of the horse they used to make it, and Mr. Cheney certainly has those qualities."
• "He that thinks the name centaur stands for some real being, imposes on himself, and mistakes words for things."