Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or possessing the virtues of an amulet: as, amuletic medicines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an
amulet ; operating as acharm .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is the amuletic cross of the Western world, worn by the sick in the hope of recovery from illness.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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It is the amuletic cross of the Western world, worn by the sick in the hope of recovery from illness.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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Edward Berdoe, in the "Origin and Growth of the Healing Art," comments on the universality of amuletic symbols and talismans.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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As Tobin Siebers has shown (in The Mirror of Medusa, 1983), the Gorgon has traditionally been associated with curses and with amuletic, ritual language.
Dialogic Text 1824
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Created for about three thousand years in the region the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia, or "the land between two rivers," the function of seals was both practical, as a means of identification, and amuletic, intended to protect or benefit the owner in some way.
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Created for about three thousand years in the region the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia, or "the land between two rivers," the function of seals was both practical, as a means of identification, and amuletic, intended to protect or benefit the owner in some way.
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Created for about three thousand years in the region the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia, or "the land between two rivers," the function of seals was both practical, as a means of identification, and amuletic, intended to protect or benefit the owner in some way.
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Created for about three thousand years in the region the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia, or "the land between two rivers," the function of seals was both practical, as a means of identification, and amuletic, intended to protect or benefit the owner in some way.
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Created for about three thousand years in the region the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia, or "the land between two rivers," the function of seals was both practical, as a means of identification, and amuletic, intended to protect or benefit the owner in some way.
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Created for about three thousand years in the region the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia, or "the land between two rivers," the function of seals was both practical, as a means of identification, and amuletic, intended to protect or benefit the owner in some way.
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