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Envy [Hieroglyphically]
Envy [Hieroglyphically] an
envious person was represented by the water-serpent
Hydra,
because of its proceeding from corruption and mud; intimating, that persons
that entertain this ungrateful passion in their breasts, are of such sordid
disposition, that they seem to be made up of mud and
baseness.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
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