jynx

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名词 n.
  1. A bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen (Jynx torquilla).
    — Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman.
  2. A charm or spell.
    — These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz], Baits, and Enticements of Love.
  3. One of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “Chaldaic” philosophy.
    — 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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jynges plural iynx alternative iyng alternative jyng alternative

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An adaptation of the Latin iynx (“wryneck”), itself an adaptation of the Ancient Greek ἴϋγξ (íünx, “Eurasian wryneck, Jynx torquilla; spell or charm; passionate yearning”).
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