jynx

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jynx

Jynx, Käenpiiat, suku käenpiiat.

Englannin sanakirja

jynx englanniksi

1. A bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen ((taxlink)).

2. 1649, George Daniel, Trinarchodia: Henry V, line ccxcv:

Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman.

3. 1706, John Kersey (editor), Phillips’s New World of Words, “Jynx”:

Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail.

4. 1708, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London XXVI, page 123:

The Jynx or Wryneck…I first heard this year on March 29.

5. 1845, The Zoologist: A Miscellany of Natural History III, page 1,107:

Its sharp and harsh cry, resembling a repetition of Jynx, Jynx, Jynx.

6. 1857, Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery (1858), volume I, page 297:

A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx, in their hands.

7. puhekieltä A charm or spell a jinx (qualifier).

8. '''ante 1693', Sir Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais (author), The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais'', chapter i, page 23:

These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements les philtres, iynges, et attraictz, Baits, and Enticements of Love.

9. The name of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “Chaldaic” philosophy.

10. 1655, Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy (1701), page 17/2:

Then is the Intelligible Jynx; next which are the Synoches, the Empyreal, the Ætherial and the Material; after the Synoches are the Teletarchs…Intelligent Jynges do themselves also understand from the Father By unspeakable Counsels being moved so as to understand.

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