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Definition of uroboros in English: uroboros(also ouroboros) noun ˌjʊərə(ʊ)ˈbɒrəsˌyo͝orəˈbôrəs A circular symbol depicting a snake, or less commonly a dragon, swallowing its tail, as an emblem of wholeness or infinity. Example sentencesExamples - While critical of the inappropriate use of classical ornament, it was characteristic of Soane to have revived the use of the ancient symbol of eternity, the ouroboros, or snake biting its tail.
- Its most apposite characterisation is the archetypal image of ouroboros, the serpent that eats its own tail.
- The ouroboros eats its own tail to sustain its life, in an eternal cycle of renewal.
- The image of an ouroboros appeared to German chemist, Friedrich August Kekule in a dream, inspiring his groundbreaking discovery of the chemical structure of the benzene molecule.
- While many bowls show little sign of outside influence, others display the well-known motifs of ‘international’ magic - common divine names, familiar voces magicae, and symbols such as the ouroboros or the characteres.
- Like the ouroboros serpent of Ancient Egypt, the show will feast on itself to create an unbroken circle of self-cannibalism; autonomous, self-sustaining and utterly, terrifyingly unstoppable.
- Once again, I am reminded of the ouroboros, which is doomed to forever fight a battle - like the cinema ultimately must - between its own creation and its simultaneous self-destruction.
Derivatives adjective Neptune's embrace reminds us of the ecstasy of paradise and of the bliss of uroboric sameness from which we each derive our very sense of self-hood.
Origin 1940s: from Greek (drakōn) ouroboros '(snake) devouring its tail'. Definition of uroboros in US English: uroboros(also ouroboros) nounˌyo͝orəˈbôrəs A circular symbol depicting a snake, or less commonly a dragon, swallowing its tail, as an emblem of wholeness or infinity. Example sentencesExamples - While critical of the inappropriate use of classical ornament, it was characteristic of Soane to have revived the use of the ancient symbol of eternity, the ouroboros, or snake biting its tail.
- The image of an ouroboros appeared to German chemist, Friedrich August Kekule in a dream, inspiring his groundbreaking discovery of the chemical structure of the benzene molecule.
- While many bowls show little sign of outside influence, others display the well-known motifs of ‘international’ magic - common divine names, familiar voces magicae, and symbols such as the ouroboros or the characteres.
- Once again, I am reminded of the ouroboros, which is doomed to forever fight a battle - like the cinema ultimately must - between its own creation and its simultaneous self-destruction.
- Its most apposite characterisation is the archetypal image of ouroboros, the serpent that eats its own tail.
- The ouroboros eats its own tail to sustain its life, in an eternal cycle of renewal.
- Like the ouroboros serpent of Ancient Egypt, the show will feast on itself to create an unbroken circle of self-cannibalism; autonomous, self-sustaining and utterly, terrifyingly unstoppable.
Origin 1940s: from Greek (drakōn) ouroboros ‘(snake) devouring its tail’. |