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Talismanic

Talismanic \Tal`is*man"ic\, Talismanical \Tal`is*man"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.

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talismanic

a. Of, relating to, or like, a talisman.

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talismanic

adj. possessing or believed to possess magic power especially protective power; "a talismanic amulet"

Usage examples of "talismanic".

Ellinis and Lampiar and Penapat and the other high officers of the court, had prevailed upon her not to conduct her talismanic surveys out on the deck even though she felt closer to her loved ones under the open sky.

A moment later he arose, threw back his hood, placed the talismanic coronet upon his own brow, and drew the Three-Lobed Burning Eye from his belt.

I require the talismanic coronet for my confrontation with the Archimage and you must preserve it even at the cost of your life.

The man was wearing the talismanic coronet called the Three-Headed Monster!

Then he began to press the jeweled studs within the box, bonding the talismanic coronet to himself.

A good-quality gem, Rhion thought, far better than most wizards in his own world could afford for talismanic work unless they had an extremely rich patron.

In view of their talismanic function, this struck Jame as a thoroughly inauspicious procedure.

Amfortas depend upon a touch of the talismanic spear--a device which came into the Grail story from pagan sources, as I have already pointed out.

Lloyd had vaguely begun to grasp the symbolic, talismanic power of THE KEY.

Mary always waits at sunset to see the parakeets, her talismanic rosellas, fly over on their way to roost in the trees higher up the mountain.

Then they crowded forward for a closer examination of the talismanic mark, staring at it with expressions of awe and wonder.

It would not be blessed at Mekka, and so lose all its talismanic and mysterious power.

He was a talismanic device, the sanctified awe-detector of a community of ecstatics, not a nursemaid.

It will be the main object of the following description to establish it as essentially a branch of the subject, and to show that it may be considered simply as a particular case of the general proposition --- differing from evocatory and talismanic Magick only in the values which are represented by the unknown quantities in the pantomorphous equations.

It should be noted, and you may question them on this matter, that when Colonel Maddock and her companions carried small talismanic bags of Petaybean soil gleaned from the inner caves, they felt not only psychological comfort, but also some form of telepathic communication with the planet.