Jynx

//d͡ʒɪŋks// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A charm or spell.

    "These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz], Baits, and Enticements of Love."

  3. 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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"Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman."

Etymology

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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