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jynx|dʒɪŋks|
Also 7 jyng. Pl. jynges |ˈdʒɪndʒɪz|.
[a. mod.L. jynx, pl. jynges, = L. iynx, a. Gr. ἴυγξ, pl. ἴυγγες the wryneck, a bird made use of in witchcraft; hence, a charm, a spell.]
1. A bird, the wryneck (Jynx or Iynx torquilla); also called yunx.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, ccxcv, Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman. 1706Phillips, Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail. 1708Phil. Trans. XXVI. 123 The Jynx or Wryneck..I first heard this year on March 29. [1845Zoologist III. 1107 Its sharp and harsh cry, resembling a repetition of Jynx, Jynx, Jynx.] 1857Birch Anc. Pottery (1858) I. 297 A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx, in their hands.
2. transf. A charm or spell.
a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. i. 23 These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz], Baits, and Enticements of Love.
3. Name of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient ‘Chaldaic’ philosophy.
1655Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 17/2 [tr.] 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 under⁓stand from the Father By unspeakable Counsels being moved so as to understand. |