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- noun A
magical plant , said to be good againstenchantments .
Etymologies
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Latin Haemonia a name of Thessaly, the land of magic.
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Examples
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This is the only certain, and this is the universal, preventive of all debasing superstitions; this is the true haemony ([Greek: haima], blood, [Greek: oinos], wine), which our Milton has beautifully allegorised in a passage strangely overlooked by all his commentators.
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Prayer, my sin-beset brethren, standfast prayer, is the otherwise unidentified haemony whose best habitat was the Garden of Gethsemane; and with that holy root in your heart and in your mouth, there is "no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against
Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
qms commented on the word haemony
That beverage that formerly seemed to me
An ordinary serving of steaming tea
Was nothing prosaic
But apotropaic -
A cup of mysterious haemony.
April 19, 2018
bilby commented on the word haemony
Did it taste laemony?
April 19, 2018