a. [f. CADUCE-US + -AN.] Of or pertaining to a caduceus.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Caducean, among the Romans was the name of a wand or rod.

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1721–1800.  in Bailey.

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1847.  in Craig.

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1879.  J. Todhunter, Alcestis, 6.

        Of that caducean rod he [Apollo] drove our flocks
To pasture with.

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