Meaning of caducean | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or relating to the caduceus, Mercury's wand, and symbol of medicine.

Examples

“The scene was unchanged; and even in winter the soul of beauty hovered over it, ready again to reanimate the corpse, when the caducean wand of spring⟳ should touch⟳ it.”

“He loved "Simplicissimus" as his nom de main—often simplified to S-s or simply s, which he called The Snake, the savior of woman: his caducean sign⟳ of a mental health and guilelessness somewhat inconsonant with his equally sincere claim⟳ to be "the Hermes of good news who teaches knowledge of good and evil!"”

“This is apparent in her relationship with the caducean snakes, Mack and Mike ( 'macrocosm' and 'microcosm' respectively ) in which she takes the role of disciple to their teacher as her journey unfolds.”

“In fact, this hieroglypic was eliminated from Salmon's editions, which substituted a caducean image of two serpents devouring each other (illustrated sixth from the left in Salmon's diagram, fig. 2) for the original virgin-dragon picture.”

CEFR level