单词 | jynx |
释义 | jynxn. 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). < n.a1657 |
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