cockatrice

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  1. noun Mythology A serpent hatched from a cock's egg and having the power to kill by its glance.

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  • Lady Hathaway sat abruptly upon a chair and stared at Cassandra and wondered if a cockatrice was hiding beneath her daughter's apparently unmoved countenance. —  Karen Harbaugh - [Cupid -1] - Cupid's Mistake
  • Laura (continuing after he has explained that the basilisk and the cockatrice were one and the same creature): I should have asked about the salamander . —  My Bones Will Keep - Gladys Mitchell- Bradley 35
  • Smash saw the problem immediately; a cockatrice was approaching the tree. —  Ogre Ogre
  • Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To prison all with heresy and vice. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Diary of Anna Green Winslow, by Anna Green Winslow
  • Since the one Grundy addressed happened to be a cockatrice, the notion of such a hena-trice appealed to it. —  Centaur Aisle
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  1. Middle English cocatrice, basilisk, from Old French cocatris, from Medieval Latin cocātrīx, cocātrīc-, possibly alteration of calcātrīx (translation of Greek ikhneumōn, tracker), from Latin calcāre, to track, from calx, calc-, heel.

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  1. Early modern English also coccatrice; from Middle English cocatryse, kokatrice, from Old French cocatrice, cocatris, cocatrix, cocatriz, coqatris, coquatrix, chocatrix, cocastris, coquastris, caucatris, caucatri, qualquetrix, an ichneumon, a crocodile, a cockatrice, French cocatrix, a cockatrice, = Provencal calcatrix = Spanish cocatriz, cocadriz, cocotriz, a crocodile, = Italian cocatrice (Middle Latin cocatrix, -tric-), a cockatrice: all corruptions of Latin crocodilus, a crocodile; cf. crocodile and its obsolete forms cockodrill, cokodrille. Popularly associated with cock, hence the fable of its origin.
 

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