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Definition of Scarebaeus

||Scar`a*bæ"us (?), n. [L.] (Zoöl.) Same as Scarab.

||Scar*a*bæ"us, n. (Egypt. Archæol.) A conventionalized representation of a beetle, with its legs held closely at its sides, carved in natural or made in baked clay, and commonly having an inscription on the flat underside.

||Scar`a*bæ"us (?), n. [L.] (Zoöl.) Same as Scarab.

||Scar*a*bæ"us, n. (Egypt. Archæol.) A conventionalized representation of a beetle, with its legs held closely at its sides, carved in natural or made in baked clay, and commonly having an inscription on the flat underside.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to
our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality,
the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit
of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it
to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal
reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior
beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

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