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herma
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A herma (, pl. hermai ), commonly in English herm , is a sculpture with a head, and perhaps a torso, above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height. The form originated in Ancient Greece ...
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n. A herm
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Hermes \Her"mes\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Myth.) See Mercury . Note: Hermes Trismegistus [Gr. 'Ermh^s trisme`gistos, lit., Hermes thrice greatest] was a late name of Hermes, especially as identified with the Egyptian god Thoth. He was the fabled inventor ...
Usage examples of herma.
And well, you will allow that me bleeding until dying, leaving that stupid herma yours does not go in pos of Brita and begins a war?
For my grandmothers, Fay Dobrinin and Herma Little California felt a million miles away.
But Tell Sukhas was not the sort of world whose oligarchs sent warships to Solitude Hermae on good-will journeys.
The narrow cabin, unused since the first flight to Solitude Hermae, was chill and oddly musty.
But then, this was Solitude Hermae, and the magi looked after their own.
But Solitude Hermae, with neither sun nor sister worlds to modulate the music of its core, was setting up a greater interference than he had expected.
Thanks to the accelerated study on Solitudo Hermae, the Hegemonic script no longer looked peculiar to her, but the titles were old-fashioned enough to make her hesitate, mentally shifting from one alphabet to the more familiar coine characters, before she was certain she understood them: The Art of Courtly Behavior, Recollections of a Long Life, Regulations of the Royal House, The Register of the Thousand, and the even larger Register of the Ten Thousand.
Solitudo Hermae, all boiled down into a promise that could mean everything, or nothing at all.
Solitude Hermae had stressed was the technique of ordering information.
She had learned the theory, at least, on Solitudo Hermae, but the practice was a different matter.
Solitude Hermae had made her adept at deciphering unfamiliar symbolic systems.
She felt the barrier close in around her, the air taking on the faintly lifeless quality that she associated with the isolation rings on Solitude Hermae, where she had first learned the Art.
Of course the magi who defined the voidmarks for transition to Solitudo Hermae would use the opportunity to expound a section of their Art.
Revealing formal gardens with stone hermae, geysering fountains, lamps, a marble wellhead, terra-cotta jars tall as a man, and statues of sylphs and mythical animals so lifelike that they almost seemed to move through the boughs and terraced pathways.
Agora and temples, commencing from the Hermae, and pay honour to the sacred beings, each in turn, whose shrines and statues are there congregated.