0 a creature in ancient Greek stories that has a human's upper body and the lower body and legs of a horse
For instance, the fable of the centaur was invented to show, by the union of man and horse, the swiftness of human life.
She imagined a determined Hungarian prairie, over which dashed disordered centaurs brandishing clubs, driving before them a band of satyrs and leaping fauns.
The centaur of olden times, part horse and part man, seems to be a suggestion of the fact that the horse is something more than a beast.
The design was made in hammered silver, and showed centaurs talking to cupids that are sitting on their backs.
The sheep-goat has already shown us the possibilities opening up of human-animal fusion; the mythological centaur begins to become an awful potential reality.
A teaching hospital is in fact like a centaur; it cannot be adequately fed on a diet which consists of nothing but oats.
A teaching hospital is a beast a little like a centaur.
It is a sham or a centaur, but, whatever it is, it is not coherent and satisfactory.
