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单词 jynx
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jynxn.

/dʒɪŋks/
Forms: Also 1600s jyng. Plural jynges /ˈdʒɪndʒɪz/.
Etymology: < modern Latin jynx, plural jynges, = Latin iynx, < Greek ἴυγξ, plural 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 n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > jynx torquilla (wryneck)
wryneck1585
jynxa1657
yunx1694
barley-bird1766
long tongue1822
cuckoo's mate1831
snake-bird1831
pea-bird1838
writheneck1840
rinding-bird1849
weet-bird1863
mackerel bird1879
felling bird1883
turkey-bird1885
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccxcv, in Poems (1878) IV. 174 Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail.
1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 123 The Jynx or Wryneck..I first heard this year on March 29.
1845 Zoologist 3 1107 Its sharp and harsh cry, resembling a repetition of Jynx, Jynx, Jynx.]
1857 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery (1858) I. 297 A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx, in their hands.
2. transferred. A charm or spell.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > spell
galderOE
lede-runec1000
sigalderc1000
craftOE
lede spelc1275
charma1300
conjurisonc1380
conjurationa1398
incantation1412
saunter1562
blessing1572
fascination1572
spell1579
lot1625
cantation1656
cantion1656
take1678
jynx1693
cantrip1719
pishogue1829
brujería1838
paternoster1880
goofer1887
runea1935
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. i. 23 These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements [Fr. les philtres, iynges, et attraictz], Baits, and Enticements of Love.
3. Name of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient ‘Chaldaic’ philosophy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > [noun]
ghostOE
spiritc1350
minda1398
sprite?1440
intelligencea1456
esperite1477
intelligency1582
genio1590
geniusa1592
ethereal1610
spirituality1628
supernatural1660
jynx1662
duende1691
atua1769
nat1819
demon1822
Wandjina1938
the world > the supernatural > the occult > [noun] > occultist > order of spiritual intelligences
jynx1662
1662 T. Stanley Hist. Chaldaick Philos. i. 21 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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