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serpent
[ sur-puhnt ]
noun
- a snake.
- a wily, treacherous, or malicious person.
- a firework that burns with a serpentine motion or flame.
- an obsolete wooden wind instrument with a serpentine shape and a deep, coarse tone. Compare ophicleide.
- Serpent, Astronomy. the constellation Serpens.
serpent
/ ˈ²õɜ˱èÉ™²Ô³Ù /
noun
- a literary or dialect word for snake
- Old Testament a manifestation of Satan as a guileful tempter (Genesis 3:1–5)
- a sly, deceitful, or unscrupulous person
- an obsolete wind instrument resembling a snake in shape, the bass form of the cornett
- a firework that moves about with a serpentine motion when ignited
serpent
- The creature in the Book of Genesis that tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit , thus committing the first act of the Fall of Man . In the New Testament , the serpent of Genesis is identified with Satan .
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of serpent1
C14: via Old French from Latin ²õ±ð°ù±èŧ²Ô²õ a creeping thing, from serpere to creep; related to Greek herpein to crawl
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Think animal jewelry — bridles, straps and other harness parts adorned with eagle heads, rosettes, griffins, busts of Herakles, serpents and lions, often shaped from gold.
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And as their fervor grows, so too does his confidence, an ouroboros of mutual reinforcement, a serpent devouring its own tail.
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They insert their toes in things like serpents' tails which present to view the shape of scorpions...
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At one point, she compares Orlok to a serpent inside her body.
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Day in, day out, whatever the time in an always chaotic, often desperate rotation of worldly life, the warrior serpent is on duty.
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