The lotus, long held sacred because of its androgynous character, has been regarded as typical of the One Perfect One, because it is supposed that the lotus reproduces itself without the male pollen.
The earliest Venus, worshipped as the goddess of Universal Womanhood, was represented with a beard signifying her androgynous character.
As a matter of fact it is by no means certain that the Creator is not represented as being androgynous even in our Bible.
Footnote 22: The androgynous creator of the Br[=a]hmanas.
It is said to be androgynous or hermaphrodite--hence its peculiarly sacred character.
The androgynous or plural form of the ancient Phoenician God Aleim, the Creator referred to in the opening chapter of Genesis, is clearly apparent.
The Sphinx is supposed to typify not only Cybele, but the great androgynous God of Africa as well.
The Phrygian Attis and the Syrian Adonis, as represented in monuments of ancient art, are androgynous personifications of the same attributes.
Here devout worshippers believe that the androgynous God of fertility, or Nature, still manifests itself to the faithful.
I was confirmed in the impression that the women, although some of them were very plump, others very skinny, and many beggared description, were on the whole androgynous in appearance.
Firmicus attributes to the Persians a belief in the androgynous nature of the deity [naturam ejus (jovis) ad utriusque sexus transferentes].
In this mystic male and female we have the first great androgynous god.
The same idea underlies much of the worship of the ancient Greeks, finding expression in the symbols devoted to Apollo or the sun, and in their androgynous sculptures.
Reference has been made to the androgynous nature ascribed to the Deity by different nations, and here at once is opened up the whole subject of sex worship.
The androgynoustheory of primal man found many supporters, the separation into two beings having been brought about by sensual desire.
The most definiteandrogynous figure is the Greek Hermaphroditos.
This last remark does not necessarily point to an androgynous deity, for exchange of dress between men and women sometimes occurs where there is no question of the cult of such a deity.
It does not appear that the cult of the Greek androgynous deities entered seriously into the religious life of the people.
Androgynous deities represent attempts to combine in a single person the two sides of the productive power of nature.
Descent from an ancient androgynous prototype would, however, naturally favour and explain, to a certain extent, the recurrence of this condition in these fishes.
Everything was supposed to be in the image of God; and thus man was created double--the male and female in one person, or androgynous like God.
For one androgynous statue of Hermaphroditus or Dionysus there are at least a score of luxurious Aphrodites and voluptuous Bacchantes.
The androgynous or bisexual animal is, as a general rule, asymmetrical.
Thus, there ought to be no androgynous animals with at the same time two ovaria and two testes.
Should we explain this concurrence by the assumption that Leonardo knew from studying his book the androgynous nature of the maternal vulture?
For the androgynous woman despises every approach to coquetry, as she despises all the other insignia of feminine servitude.
But when the time shall have come for the perfect development of the androgynous creature, who is as yet only in the pupal state of her existence, women will have lost these two great helps.
Consequently, what with the anguish of knowing that her profession is neglected, and what with the unenlivened tedium of her days, sickness will be a formidable thing to women of the androgynous type--and to the men belonging to them.
Where the true woman contrives a beauty and creates a grace out of her very misfortune, the androgynous holds to the doctrine of spades and the value of the unvarnished truth.
As to androgynous willows, in addition to the references given under the head of Substitution of stamens for pistils, see Schlechtendal, 'Flora Berol.
Braun have observed similar cones in Pinus alba, and Cramer figures and describes androgynous cones in Larix microcarpa.
Flowers appearing later than the leaves, cream-color; the catkins axillary near the end of the branches, wholly sterile or the upper ones androgynous with the fertile flowers at the base.
Small species with a beakless, more or less round or pyriform perigynium, which is commonly glaucous; terminal spike androgynous or all staminate; stigmas mostly 2.
Terminal spike club-shaped and androgynous with the staminate flowers below (very rarely all staminate in n.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "androgynous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
