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单词 uroboros
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uroborosn.

/jʊərəʊˈbɒrəs/
Forms: Also ouroboros, uroborus.
Etymology: < Greek οὐροβόρος, also οὐρη-, devouring its tail (frequently connected with δράκων).
The symbol, usually in the form of a circle, of a snake (or dragon) eating its tail.
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cross-bones1798
marrowbones1824
skull and crossbones1826
uroboros1940
corn dolly1952
1940 H. G. Baynes Mythol. of Soul vi. 221 Thus the uroborus symbol represents our psychic continuity with the immemorial past.
1940 H. G. Baynes Mythol. of Soul vi. 221 Geber, or Jabir, the most famous of the Arabian alchemists, who lived in Kufa about a.d. 776, used the uroborus to represent a closed system or magic ring, denoting the idea of an eternal process.
1953 R. F. C. Hull tr. C. G. Jung Psychol. & Alchemy in Coll. Wks. XII. iii. v. 357 The alchemical parallel..is the double nature of Mercurius, which shows itself most clearly in the Uroboros, the dragon that devours, fertilizes, begets, and slays itself and brings itself to life again.
1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 157 Alchemical symbolism takes the ouroborus and the hermaphrodite..in this redemptive context.
1975 Hughes & Brecht Vicious Circles & Infinity Fig. 11 The ouroboros, the snake with his tail in his mouth, is the prototype of the vicious circle... The ‘Endless Snake’ depicts an ouroboros who has become one with himself. It has fallen into the mathematical sign for infinity.

Draft additions 1993

uroˈboric adj. resembling or suggestive of a uroboros.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [adjective]
figural?a1500
sacramental1534
shadowing1579
hieroglyphical1581
similitudinary1581
morala1616
symbolical1620
characterical1634
shadowy1641
emblematical1644
emblematic1645
hieroglyphic1647
symbolic1681
emblematizing1751
tokening1820
imagerial1837
twi-necked1840
personating1851
symptomatic1853
symbolizing1909
uroboric1958
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 May p. xii/4 The concept of an amorphous psychic chaos, the primal, completely dark and unconscious ‘uroboric’ state of the human psyche.
1984 A. Carter Nights at Circus ii. ii. 107 That durably metaphoric, uroboric snake with its tail in its mouth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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