sepsn.

Brit.

/sɛps/, U.S.

/sɛps/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sēps.

Etymology: < classical Latin sēps poisonous snake reputed to cause a festering wound by its bite, venomous lizard < ancient Greek σήψ poisonous snake reputed to cause thirst by its bite, in Hellenistic Greek also a kind of lizard < σήπειν to make rotten (see septic adj.¹).Compare Middle French, French seps (1562 in Du Pinet's translation of Pliny, subsequently from 1690). In quot. ?1527 via Dutch seps (1520 in the passage translated). Probably identified, at least in part, with the European skink (see sense 2), erroneously reputed to be venomous. Ancient authors may have been unclear as to whether the creature was a snake or a lizard because of its very short or vestigial legs. In sense 2 after post-classical Latin use by U. Aldrovandi (1640); compare scientific Latin use as a genus name ( J. N. Laurenti Synopsis Reptilium (1768) 58) and as a species name ( Linnaeus Syst. Nat. (1758) I. 204, in Lacerta seps, now called Tetradactylus seps).

1. A very venomous serpent described by classical writers.

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deaf addereOE

adderOE

aspidec1000

shadow-addera1382

chelydre1393

tyre1471

viper1526

seps?1527

aspic1530

thirsty snake1567

aspworm1587

cheliderect?1590

viper-worm1605

palmer-serpent1608

polonga1681

asp1710

thirst-serpent1731

venom-snake1845

thanatophidian1891

solenoglyph1913

?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. i i/2 Seps is a lytel serpent [Du. Seps is een serpent] & is so full of venym that he poysoneth nat only the flesshe of man but also the bone.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 103 [Porcellayn] is..good agaynst the bytyng of a venemus beast, called seps.

1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) ix. 829 The seps [L. seps], whose bite Consumes the bones, dissolues the body quite.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 215 The Seps, whose wound is very venomous, and causes the part affected to corrupt in a very short time.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. i. 98 All my being, Like him whom the Numidian seps did thaw Into a dew with poison, is dissolved.

1997 S. Bartsch Ideology in Cold Blood i. 30 Another hair-raising example: Sabellus, who is bitten by a seps and promptly dissolves onto the desert floor as his skin spectacularly fails to keep what's inside in.

2. Any of various lizards with snake-like bodies and very short limbs, including the three-toed skinks of southern Europe and North Africa (genus Chalcides) and plated lizards of the African genus Tetradactylus (family Gerrhosauridae).The genus name Seps (Laurenti 1768) was applied to disparate species and is now disused.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of (skink) > miscellaneous types of

seps1763

serpent-lizard1802

1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. I. xxi. 357 The Seps, or the Chalcidican [sic] Lizard of Aldrovandus, is rather a Serpent than a Lizard, though he has four small legs, and paws divided into feet.

1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 252 The Seps is rather a small species.

1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 528/2 They [sc. Blind-worms] are, in short, as Cuvier observes, so to speak, Seps-lizards, without feet.

1898 G. E. C. Casey Riviera Nature Notes xlviii. 321 At least half-a-dozen species of lizards occur on the Riviera..[including] the splendid Occellata, and the queer-looking Seps.

1935 W. S. Berridge All about Reptiles & Batrachians (caption to plate facing p. 156) The three-toed skink, or seps. Its limbs are so small that they are quite useless as organs of progression.

2007 G. Alexander Guide Reptiles Southern Afr. (e-book ed.) From the little that is known, it would appear that all species of Seps are egg-layers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seps
释义	sepsn. Brit. /sɛps/, U.S. /sɛps/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sēps. Etymology: < classical Latin sēps poisonous snake reputed to cause a festering wound by its bite, venomous lizard < ancient Greek σήψ poisonous snake reputed to cause thirst by its bite, in Hellenistic Greek also a kind of lizard < σήπειν to make rotten (see septic adj.¹).Compare Middle French, French seps (1562 in Du Pinet's translation of Pliny, subsequently from 1690). In quot. ?1527 via Dutch seps (1520 in the passage translated). Probably identified, at least in part, with the European skink (see sense 2), erroneously reputed to be venomous. Ancient authors may have been unclear as to whether the creature was a snake or a lizard because of its very short or vestigial legs. In sense 2 after post-classical Latin use by U. Aldrovandi (1640); compare scientific Latin use as a genus name ( J. N. Laurenti Synopsis Reptilium (1768) 58) and as a species name ( Linnaeus Syst. Nat. (1758) I. 204, in Lacerta seps, now called Tetradactylus seps). 1. A very venomous serpent described by classical writers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > group of venomous snakes > venomous snake deaf addereOE adderOE aspidec1000 shadow-addera1382 chelydre1393 tyre1471 viper1526 seps?1527 aspic1530 thirsty snake1567 aspworm1587 cheliderect?1590 viper-worm1605 palmer-serpent1608 polonga1681 asp1710 thirst-serpent1731 venom-snake1845 thanatophidian1891 solenoglyph1913 ?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. i i/2 Seps is a lytel serpent [Du. Seps is een serpent] & is so full of venym that he poysoneth nat only the flesshe of man but also the bone. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 103 [Porcellayn] is..good agaynst the bytyng of a venemus beast, called seps. 1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) ix. 829 The seps [L. seps], whose bite Consumes the bones, dissolues the body quite. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 215 The Seps, whose wound is very venomous, and causes the part affected to corrupt in a very short time. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. i. 98 All my being, Like him whom the Numidian seps did thaw Into a dew with poison, is dissolved. 1997 S. Bartsch Ideology in Cold Blood i. 30 Another hair-raising example: Sabellus, who is bitten by a seps and promptly dissolves onto the desert floor as his skin spectacularly fails to keep what's inside in. 2. Any of various lizards with snake-like bodies and very short limbs, including the three-toed skinks of southern Europe and North Africa (genus Chalcides) and plated lizards of the African genus Tetradactylus (family Gerrhosauridae).The genus name Seps (Laurenti 1768) was applied to disparate species and is now disused. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of (skink) > miscellaneous types of seps1763 serpent-lizard1802 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. I. xxi. 357 The Seps, or the Chalcidican [sic] Lizard of Aldrovandus, is rather a Serpent than a Lizard, though he has four small legs, and paws divided into feet. 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 252 The Seps is rather a small species. 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 528/2 They [sc. Blind-worms] are, in short, as Cuvier observes, so to speak, Seps-lizards, without feet. 1898 G. E. C. Casey Riviera Nature Notes xlviii. 321 At least half-a-dozen species of lizards occur on the Riviera..[including] the splendid Occellata, and the queer-looking Seps. 1935 W. S. Berridge All about Reptiles & Batrachians (caption to plate facing p. 156) The three-toed skink, or seps. Its limbs are so small that they are quite useless as organs of progression. 2007 G. Alexander Guide Reptiles Southern Afr. (e-book ed.) From the little that is known, it would appear that all species of Seps are egg-layers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1527
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