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Hermes's staff
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caduceus
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Caduceus was a New Zealand bred Standardbred racehorse. Caduceus is notable for winning the 1960 Inter Dominion Trotting Championship , trotting's premiership event in Australia and New Zealand, from a handicap of 36 yards, in front of a world record crowd. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Latin caduceus , alteration of Doric Greek karykeion "herald's staff," from karyx (genitive karykos ) "a herald," from PIE *karu- , from root *kar- "to praise loudly, extol" (cognates: Sanskrit carkarti "mentions with praise," Old English hreð ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it. 2 A symbol ((lang und sc=Latinx ☤)) representing ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caduceus \Ca*du"ce*us\, n. [L. caduceum, caduceus; akin to Gr. ? a herald's wand, fr. ? herald.] (Myth.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but ...
Usage examples of caduceus.
Too much like that big-arena stuff Mobius Caduceus did up in the orbital habitat.
Jhana Meniskos announced that it was a performance by Onoma Verite, the latest discovery by Lev Korchnoi and the Mobius Caduceus music collective.
There were dozens of them, each button smaller than a dime, with a tiny shank on the back, a raised emblem of a caduceus on the front.
Latent had pulled fifty million smudged partials from the caduceus buttons.
I THOUGHT ABOUT the sick mind that had to be behind those caduceus buttons as I drove home that night.
I started running toward the stairs, wondering how many patients had died in this hospital, how many had been found with caduceus buttons on their dead eyes.
When I turned away, I saw a pair of caduceus buttons winking at me from the console beside the bed.
CEO, had stated repeatedly that the mortality rate at Municipal was within range for similar hospitals, and that the caduceus buttons were a joke.
Then he showed me a small plastic box half-filled with caduceus buttons.
The caduceus, serpents around a winged staff, symbol of the medical profession.
The caduceus of Hermes, which was given him by Apollo in exchange for the lyre, was a magic wand which exercised influence over the living and the dead, bestowed wealth and prosperity and turned everything it touched into gold.
In historical times the caduceus was the attribute of Hermes as the god of commerce and peace, and among the Greeks it was the distinctive mark of heralds and ambassadors, whose persons it rendered inviolable.
At this moment Mercury unfortunately approached his caduceus a little too close to the sinister object on the floor.
Mercury had laid aside his caduceus, and Neptune had slipped his trident under the table.
The restoration work was beautiful, down to the neon-illuminated caduceus above the front door.