Chrysalid

Word CHRYSALID
Character 9
Hyphenation chrys a lid
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Chrysalid"

What do we mean by chrysalid?

A chrysalis. noun

Same as chrysalis. noun

Relating to a chrysalis.

Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis. adjective

See chrysalis. noun

Of or relating to a chrysalis adjective

Of or relating to a chrysalis.

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The word "chrysalid" in example sentences

During this interesting period, which might be called their chrysalid state, they are twisted and turned, sometimes sawn asunder, parts lopped off here and applied elsewhere, and all those radical changes made which would utterly destroy anything possessed of protean possibilities inferior to those of the common Western frame house. ❋ Various (N/A)

Like the caterpillar who enters a chrysalid, we surrender to death to our ways and enter the maze of waiting, and if we wait patiently enough, in His time we emerge into the transformation needed, and wonderfully possible, in whatever phase of our lives we are. ❋ Meg (2009)

Charlie was nearly two years old and I was emerging from the introverted, chrysalid stage of early motherhood. ❋ Chris Cleave (2008)

It feels like a metamorphosis, and my phase as a chrysalid is nearing a close. ❋ Spectre12 (2005)

But, for all that, there had been intervals, ere his thirteen years 'exile ended, in which, so far from regret, he experienced a certain joy at remembrance of this rough and rugged point of time where he had escaped from the chrysalid state to one of action and freedom and real life. ❋ Various (N/A)

From the room across the hall she brought Celia, a chrysalid child, sleeping heavily, closely wrapped in an old plaid shawl, and laid her on Joel's bed. ❋ Harriet L. Smith (N/A)

One might, perhaps, get a hint by watching the living chrysalid of a potential moon-moth wriggle back into its cocoon -- but little is to be learned from human teaching. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

Somehow, someway, her caterpillar wormhood had carried, through the mummified chrysalid and the reincarnation of her present form, knowledge of an earlier, infinitely coarser diet. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

He traced them from the worm to the chrysalid, in the cocoon, and thence to the moth; he found worms hatched from the eggs laid by these moths invariably developed the corpuscles. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Keats was famous and already gathered to the immortals at an age at which Shakespeare was still in the chrysalid stage of the actual buskin and sock. ❋ Arthur Acheson (1897)

If there were a race with higher or other senses than our own, or if the human race should ever in the process of development acquire such extra sense-organs, a whole universe of existent fact might become for the first time perceived by us, and we should look back upon our past state as upon a blind chrysalid form of existence in which we had been unconscious of all this new wealth of perception. ❋ Oliver Lodge (1895)

Wachique was set in front of her, to receive tante-gra'mère when the potentate's chrysalid should be lowered. ❋ Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1874)

From this play Shakespeare can have got neither hint nor help towards the execution of his own; the crude rough sketch of the Bastard as he brawls and swaggers through the long length of its scenes is hardly so much as the cast husk or chrysalid of the noble creature which was to arise and take shape for ever at the transfiguring touch of Shakespeare. ❋ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873)

After taking his fill of this sort of life he changes to a chrysalid ❋ Unknown (1872)

Thus in about two months the insect completes its transformations; within this period passing through the egg, the larva and chrysalid states, and then, as a bee, living a few days more, if a male; or if a female, living through the winter. ❋ Unknown (1872)

The larva which is fed on honey first adopts a false chrysalid appearance and afterwards goes back to its earlier form, though the necessity for these transformations escapes us entirely. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

I must also remind my reader that I had no love for affairs; that I had an income perfectly sufficient for my wants; that, both from my habits of thought and from my sufferings, my regard was upon life itself -- was indeed so far from being confined to this chrysalid beginning thereof, that I had lost all interest in this world save as the porch to the house of life. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

With plenty of faculty, Letty had not yet emerged from the chrysalid condition; she lived much as one in a dream, with whose dream mingle sounds and glimmers from the waking world. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

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