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noun

Cockatrice n.

A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk. "That bare vowel, I, shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice."

(Her.) A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.

(Script.) A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified. "The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's Note: (Rev. Ver. basilisk's) den."

Any venomous or deadly thing. "This little cockatrice of a king."

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Etymology of 'Cockatrice'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cockatrice" Quotes from Famous Books

... incredible marvels which the story-teller recounts. He tells of a valley full of serpents with crowns on their heads, who fed, "as the prose tells," on pepper, cloves, and ginger;[82] of enormous crabs with backs, "as the book says," bigger and harder than any common stone or cockatrice scales;[83] of the golden image of Xerxes, which on the approach of Alexander suddenly, "as tells the text," falls to pieces.[84] He often has recourse to an authority for support when he takes proper names from the Latin. "Luctus ...

— Early Theories of Translation • Flora Ross Amos

... on your lip— By the better trick, the insult he spared Christ— Lure him the lure o' the letters, Aretine! Lick him o'er slimy-smooth with jelly-filth O' the verse-and-prose pollution in love's guise! The cockatrice is with the basilisk! There let him grapple, denizens o' the dark, Foes or friends, but indissolubly bound, In their one spot out of the ken of God Or care of man ...

— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

... of evil, when it is visually presented, appears in hell like some noxious creature, a serpent, a cockatrice, a viper, a horned owl, a screech-owl, or some other; so do the lusts of evil in an evil man appear when he is viewed by angels. All these forms of lust must be changed one by one. The man himself, who appears as to his spirit like ...

— Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence • Emanuel Swedenborg

Words linked to "Cockatrice" : mythical creature, mythical monster