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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Cocatrice, Cok(k)atrice, n. Also: cocca-, cocka-, cokcatrice, co(c)ketrice, cokatris, cokkatryce, cokintrace; koca-, kokatrice, kokkatrys. [ME. coca-, co(c)ka-, kokatrice (Wyclif), etc., OF. cocatris.] A cockatrice. Also applied to persons. 1492 Myll Spect. 275/7.
Secundus comparith the woman vnto a kokkatrys that invennomyt men with the sicht c1515 Asl. MS. I. 169/21.
Merwalus bestes and dragonis, … cocatrice & basiliskis a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 295.
Invennomit lyk a cokkatryce [M. coketrice] Ib. 521.
Conspiratour, cursit cokatrice [B. koka-, M. cokkatrice], hell caa 1535 Stewart 17751.
That cokcatrice, full of crudelitie, To all this warld so odeous wes he 15.. Clar. ii. 276.
Full tyrranlie as feindlie coccatrice 1560 Rolland Seven S. 1224.
O cocatrice that will not ken thy awin conscience 1562-3 Winȝet II. 61/15.
Eschew, … as fra a scorpioun, as fra a cokintrace, leste thai slay thee a1568 Scott xiv. 5.
As the kocatrice keilis with hir sicht a1605 Montg. Flyt. 472.
That cammosed cocatrice they quite with them carie