The scene was unchanged; and even in winter the soul of beauty hovered over it, ready again to reanimate the corpse, when the caducean wand of spring should touch it.
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Caducean
Synonyms for "caducean" (8 found)
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5 entriesbehavioral traitdiplomatic skillmythological symbolsocial skillsymbolic device
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5 entriesdiplomatic skillhermean emblemmercurian motifnegotiation tacttactical persuasion
Collocations
6 entriescaducean emblemcaducean heraldrycaducean iconographycaducean imagerycaducean motifcaducean symbol
Inflections
2 entriesmore caduceanmost caducean
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
He loved "Simplicissimus" as his nom de main—often simplified to S-s or simply s, which he called The Snake, the savior of woman: his caducean sign of a mental health and guilelessness somewhat inconsonant with his equally sincere claim to be "the Hermes of good news who teaches knowledge of good and evil!"
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This is apparent in her relationship with the caducean snakes, Mack and Mike ( 'macrocosm' and 'microcosm' respectively ) in which she takes the role of disciple to their teacher as her journey unfolds.
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In fact, this hieroglypic was eliminated from Salmon's editions, which substituted a caducean image of two serpents devouring each other (illustrated sixth from the left in Salmon's diagram, fig. 2) for the original virgin-dragon picture.
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