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"ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 249",
"text": "As a revolutionary act of prophecy in an age of political science, Wissenkunst is a unique and anarchic expression of freedom, and not a new and aspiring system of indoctrination. If Wissenkunst is itself turned into political apologetics, then the fabulous plumed serpent is turned into a monster, a basilisk.",
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"ref": "2019 June 13, Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You, Orion Publishing Group",
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English basilicke, borrowed from Old French basilique, from Latin basiliscus, from Ancient Greek βασιλίσκος (basilískos) (literally \"minor king or chieftain\", possibly based on descriptions or rare encounters with different types of cobra which have crown-like patterns on their head; the \"deadly gaze\" could have been from the spitting cobra's ability to spit venom into the eyes of predators or prey from a distance), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”). The cognitohazard/infohazard sense is by analogy with the deadly gaze of the mythical creature.",
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"ref": "1870, The British drama: illustrated, volume 4, page 997",
"text": "Well, She is so basilisk; there's no death in her eyes […]",
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"ref": "1884, M. L. O'Byrne, Ill-won Peerages, Or, An Unhallowed Union, page 126",
"text": "her gaze became more basilisk in its expression, and her countenance bore some similitude to that of a handsome fiend",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2004, Witi Tame Ihimaera, Whanau II, page 167",
"text": "He had never seen her quite like this, so basilisk, so frightening",
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