Crossword clues for sigil
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sigil \Sig"il\, n. [L. sigillum. See Seal a stamp.]
A seal; a signature.
--Dryden.
Of talismans and sigils knew the power.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a sign, mark, or seal," mid-15c., from Late Latin sigillum, from Latin sigilla (neuter plural) "statuettes, little images, seal," diminutive of signum "sign" (see sign (n.)). In astrology, an occult device supposed to have great power (1650s).\n\nWhen my mistress died, she had under her arm-hole a small scarlet bag full of many things, which, one that was there delivered unto me. There was in this bag several sigils, some of Jupiter in Trine, others of the nature of Venus, some of iron, and one of gold, of pure angel-gold, of the bigness of a thirty-three shilling piece of King James's coin.
["The Antiquarian Repertory," London, 1780]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A seal, signature or signet. 2 A sign, image or symbol considered to be magical. 3 (context programming English) A nonalphanumeric character affixed to a symbol (e.g. variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope.
Wikipedia
A sigil (; pl. sigilla or sigils; from Latin sigillum "seal") is a symbol used in magic. The term has usually referred to a type of pictorial signature of a demon or other entity; in modern usage, especially in the context of chaos magic, it refers to a symbolic representation of the magician's desired outcome.
Sigil may refer to:
In computer programming, a sigil is a symbol attached to a variable name, showing the variable's datatype or scope, usually a prefix, as in $foo, where $ is the sigil.
Sigil, from the Latin sigillum, meaning a "little sign", means a sign or image supposedly having magical power. In 1999 Philip Gwyn adopted the term "to mean the funny character at the front of a Perl variable".
Sigil is an American comic book series published by CrossGen Entertainment from July 2000 to December 2003, ending at issue forty-two. Sigil was one of the publisher's first four titles (the others are Mystic, Scion, and Meridian), a science fiction space opera, originally created by Mark Alessi and Gina M. Villa. The book is one of many from the publisher that took place in the Sigilverse, or the CrossGen universe.
In 2011, Sigil was part of Marvel Comics' relaunch of the Crossgen Universe.
Sigil is a fictional city and the center of the Planescape campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Sigil is free, open-source editing software for e-books in the EPUB format.
As a cross-platform application, Sigil is distributed for the Windows, OS X and Linux platforms under the GNU GPL license. Sigil supports both WYSIWYG and code-based editing of EPUB files, as well as the import of HTML and plain text files.
Sigil has been developed by Strahinja Val Marković and others since 2009. From July 2011 to June 2015 John Schember was the lead developer. In June 2015 development of Sigil was taken over by Kevin Hendricks and Doug Massay.
Usage examples of "sigil".
I was spared the unwelcome task by none other than Queen Ullanoth, who had scried the little boys from a distance with the powerful moonstone sigil named Subtle Loophole.
He carefully avoided any contact with the ring, which was a powerful sigil named Weathermaker.
Loophole sigil of late, but my ordinary scrying reveals him to be in a state of unusual excitement.
No ordinary talent is able to scry the moonstones, but her Subtle Loophole sigil can.
That particular sigil is the most powerful one she possesses, and the price of its conjuring is tremendous.
Unknown Potency, at the same time forbidding him to make use of it, or any other sigil, on pain of instant annihilation.
A liberated sigil retains its efficacy, without exacting the former pain-price.
Conjure-Queen employed her Loophole sigil to see us coming, and smote our landing force with a great storm conjured by Weathermaker.
Eminence, a living sigil will ordinarily burn or even kill an unauthorized person who ventures to seize it.
Aside from his undeniable fighting prowess, his own sigil enables him to communicate with us across long distances, so we always know how his ventures are faring.
And I must emphasize that correct pronunciation is absolutely critical for bringing a sigil to life.
Honigalus bade you use your Weathermaker sigil to speed our vessels along to Cala Bay, while delaying the Tarnian mercenaries who were coming to the aid of Cathra.
The Great Lights share their power with sigil owners, and extract a price in return.
Each time one uses a sigil, one suffers subsequent pain during sleep until the debt is repaid.
Even worse is a sigil called Subtle Loophole, also owned by the Conjure-Queen.