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Basilisk vs Leviathan - What's the difference?

basilisk | leviathan |

As nouns the difference between basilisk and leviathan

is that basilisk is a mythical (and heraldic) snake-like dragon type, reputed to be so venomous that its gaze was deadly while leviathan is a vast sea monster of tremendous strength, described as the most powerful and dangerous creature in the ocean.

As adjectives the difference between basilisk and leviathan

is that basilisk is suggesting a basilisk : baleful, spellbinding while leviathan is very large; gargantuan.

basilisk

Alternative forms

* basilisc

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mythical (and heraldic) snake-like dragon type, reputed to be so venomous that its gaze was deadly.
  • The deadly look of the basilisk
  • (heraldiccharge) In heraldry, a type of dragon
  • A treedwelling type of lizard, of genus .
  • A type of large brass cannon.
  • Adjective

    (-) (rfv-sense)
  • suggesting a basilisk : baleful, spellbinding
  • *{{quote-book
  • , year=1870 , author= , title=The British drama: illustrated , volume=4 , url= , isbn= , page=997 , passage=Well, She is so basilisk ; there's no death in her eyes ...}}
  • *{{quote-book
  • , year=1884 , author=M. L. O'Byrne , title=Ill-won Peerages, Or, An Unhallowed Union , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=126 , passage=her gaze became more basilisk in its expression, and her countenance bore some similitude to that of a handsome fiend}}
  • *{{quote-book
  • , year=2004 , author=Witi Tame Ihimaera , title=Whanau II , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=167 , passage=He had never seen her quite like this, so basilisk , so frightening}} ----

    leviathan

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Very large; gargantuan.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Bible) A vast sea monster of tremendous strength, described as the most powerful and dangerous creature in the ocean.
  • *
  • Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
  • Something large; behemoth.
  • That man was a leviathan ! He took up a whole row of seats at the theatre.

    See also

    * enormous * giant