Definition of "incubi" [incubi]

• Plural form of incubus. (noun)

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• "In the medieval Christian church, nuns and priests sometimes reported that demons, called incubi and succubi, had sex with them while they were sleeping, Dr. Barrett says."
• "The succubus and the incubus (the latter being more common) were adopted by Ch.istendom; St. Augustine (_De Civitate Dei_, Bk. XV, Ch. XXIII) said that the wicked assaults of sylvans and fauns, otherwise called incubi, on women, are so generally affirmed that it would be impudent to deny them."
• "When they were male, they were called incubi; and when female, succubi."