Meaning of hippogriff | Babel Free

Definitions

a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.

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Examples

“To talk⟳ of being able to ride⟳ with stirrups, is trifling: get⟳ on Pegasus, bestride the hippogryph, or mount⟳ the white nag⟳ in the Revelation.”

“Je crains done qu'il faudra que nous nous contentions de quelque moyen plus simple et plus facile, comme d'un enchanteur à gages, un hippogriffe, ou au moins de quelque génie bienfaisant, … So I doubt⟳ we must be content with some more simple and easy method, such as a magician in our pay⟳, a hippogryph, or at least some kind genius, …”

“Yet the work⟳ is surely not a mere map of the hippogryffon wanderings of some disordered imagination…”

“I imagine⟳ a Hippogryph. The Hippogryph is at once the object of the act and the act itself. Abstract the one, the other has no existence: deny⟳ me the consciousness of the Hippogryph, you deny⟳ me the consciousness of the imagination; I am conscious of zero; I am not conscious at all.”

“Oceanus himself follows on a hippogriff, and counsels Prometheus to submit⟳ to Zeus.”

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