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单词 basilicock
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basilicockn.

Forms: Middle English baselycoc, Middle English baselycok, basilicok, basiliskoc, Middle English basylicock, basylycok, 1500s basilicock.
Etymology: < Old French basilicoc, -ecoc (nominative singular and accusative plural basilicos ), < basilic < Latin basiliscus basilisk n. + -oc = Italian -occo, usually augmentative, sometimes diminutive. Here perhaps associated with coq cock: compare cockatrice.
Obsolete.
= basilisk n. 1.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > mythical types of serpent (miscellaneous) > basilisk or cockatrice
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 28 Þanne is he [the envious] of þe kende of þe baselycoc, uor no grenhede ne may yleste beuore hym.
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋778 That sleeth right as the Basilicok [v.r. Baselycok] sleeth folk by the venym of his sighte.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 77 Basylicocks [have]..the heed lyke a cocke and body of a serpent.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ivv Like a Cockatrise, or Basilicock, which slay or kill men with the poison of their sighte.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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