Procrustean Bed

English Noun Procrustean Bed en procrustean bed. en 1981 w:William Irwin Thompson The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture Rider/Hutchinson & Co. London 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.