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amulet
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., amalettys , from Latin amuletum (Pliny) "thing worn as a charm against spells, disease, etc.," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps related to amoliri "to avert, to carry away, remove." Not recorded again in English until c.1600; the 15c. use ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A Weston light meter in a leather case dangled from his neck like an amulet . ▪ Any infant protected by an amulet bearing the names of the angels would be immune from her attentions. ▪ He handed over a ring and an amulet that ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A kind of protective charm or ornament, often bearing magical symbols, worn for protection ward off ill will, negative influences, evil spirits &/or the supernatural.
Usage examples of amulet.
Against such a peril I had provided certain amulets made of the stone alectorian, which groweth in the gizzard of a cock hatched on a moonless night when Saturn burneth in a human sign and the lord of the third house is in the ascendant.
The virtue claimed for that piece of parchment by the man who had sold it to me was that it insured its lucky possessor the love of all women, but I trust my readers will do me the justice to believe that I had no faith whatever in amorous philtres, talismans, or amulets of any kind: I had purchased it only for a joke.
The mage had as much as said the amulet, the asphodel, and the raw snail were not enough by themselves to ward him fully.
The barbarian touched the amulet about his neck as though it were a sleeping serpent coiled there.
Whistling tunelessly as the sailors aboard the Darielle had done, they stared fixedly ahead or eastward, fingering amulets and making warding gestures in the direction they dared not look.
I had bought the dowel to make a set of lie-detecting amulets and never got around to it.
Janizaries, who wore his bones enchased in a bracelet, declared by this superstitious amulet their involuntary reverence for his valor.
She reached to her chest and clasped the amulet beneath her dress, expecting to feel its ruby cold with death.
He squatted before them, washing the skull in the flowing water, and when he was finished, he ran a length of vine through the jagged hole in the cranium and out the foramen and wore the skull around his neck like an amulet.
Each grasped a musket in one hand and searched for his hijab with the other, for each carried several of these amulets, and that in demand this night was the one written against the jin, for certainly none but a jin could have done this thing.
Only the amulet on his left wrist was unchanged, and its curiously knotted flax threads and familiar beads gave her a feeling akin to homesickness, for he who wore it seemed a stranger.
Down that direction are streets where you may purchase magical charms and amulets, salt, sweetmeats, furs, ironware, and weapons.
Muzzaf Kerpatik was a sleekly prosperous person, in his long light-brown jellaba and curl-toed boots, a Star medallion around his neck in silver and diamond chips, two amulets dangling from his belt, mother-of-pearl inlays on the scabbard of his dagger and the butt of his pepperpot revolver.
It speaks of the Kalian and Kahana of Jador, and two amulets that they wear.
When Karn entered the upper cavern, I met him and put the amulets on the out-landers so they could converse and understand us.