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cockatrice Definition

cocka·trice (käk′ə tris′)

noun

  1. a fabulous serpent supposedly hatched from a cock's egg and having power to kill by a look
  2. Bible an unidentified deadly serpent

Etymology: cocatrice < OFr cocatris, crocodile < LL calcatrix, she who treads < calcare, to tread < calx, heel: see calcar

cockatrice Quotes

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw likethe ox. And thesucking child shall playonthehole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice'den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the L, as the waters cover the sea.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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