Procrustean Bed

English

Noun

Procrustean Bed (plural Procrustean Beds)

1. Alternative letter-case form of procrustean bed
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 269:

     The reductionist tendencies and impulses of Jaynes's approach tend to turn history into a Procrustean Bed; the body is mangled to fit the theory.