(n.) An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. [Also used figuratively.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The black Americans who were drafted from 1967 to 1970 called themselves Bloods, and many were influenced by the teachings and politics of Stokely Carmichael, the Black Panthers and Malcolm X. Terry explains: "They would wear black amulets, they would wear black beads, black gloves to show their identity and racial pride."
(2) Prenatal care consisted of consultation with a prophet, wearing amulets, using herbal concoctions for bathing and drinking, and injections of herbal power to keep evil spirits away and guarantee safe delivery.
(3) Among the findings were: that relatively more healers than doctors revealed their diagnoses to the patient; and that the healers, when they did diagnose, did so in terms of 'trick' and 'evil' and treatment was largely with ashes, amulets and holy water.
(4) Traditional treatment with local herbs, holy water and amulets was the most common.
(5) And the golden amulets to bring good health and fortune with - instead of the more usual images of Buddhist or Taoist holy men - engraved portraits of the former Chinese leader.
(6) Perlman thinks that throughout their six-project collaboration over the last 20 years (since Perlman was in Del Toro's debut, Cronos ), the director has kept him around as "an amulet, a lucky penny, a talisman," – though he laughs long and hard when I say he's really the Marlene Dietrich to Del Toro's Josef von Sternberg.
(7) Their preference for wearing animal skins and amulets, popular for their supposed magical powers of protection, distinguished them from the government soldiers, foreign rebels and other armed gangs who have also contributed to the wholesale rape of hundreds of thousands of women and girls over more than a decade of conflict.
(8) But these telephone calls, such 21st-century amulets, were no good.
(9) The author notes that in ancient Egypt many amulets to produce conception have been found but none to prevent it.
(10) Jed turned out to be packed with mud and sand, and with no trace of either a real heart, or the practical Egyptians' customary addition of a heart amulet in case the fallible human organ proved wanting when weighed by the gods against a feather in the scales of justice.
(11) Researchers have scanned and made 3D copies of amulets that adorned her body.
(12) Amulets, arm rings, hair style, eye makeup is supposed to protect from the evil eye.
(13) This article concerns the following points: impregnation, formation of the human embryo, Eve's creation, indirect fecundation and spermatic pollution, bi-sexuality of the first man, libido, signs of virginity, female infertility, incest, multiparity, post-menopausal conception, the fructifying powers of amulets, plants and seeds, the course of pregnancy and antenatal care, normal and difficult labour, premature birth (was Moses premature?
(14) Individuals with atypical plasma cholinesterase should wear a Medic-Alert bracelet or amulet so that complications and fatalities can be avoided.
(15) Yet by 10am, the stall manager, Frances Bird, has already bought quite a collection of (mostly broken) rings, bracelets, necklaces and amulets from one woman.
(16) Some findings of mythological significance could be demonstrated radiologically, such as the fact that the heart and kidneys had been left in the body, the presence of a scarab, various gold plates and amulets and a fayence-decorated shroud.
Rosary
Definition:
(n.) A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.
(n.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.
(n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.
(n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spiny extrusions are present on many of the neurons, arranged either as varicosities giving a rosary feature or clumped in small groups over the dendritic processes; these are absent at the level of the soma.
(2) Adrenal insufficiency as a complication of antiphospholipid syndrome is reviewed, and a useful physical sign, the acromegalic rosary, rediscovered.
(3) When he wouldn't relent, she draped him with a white rosary for safe passage.
(4) During an operation 7 cm long string like rosary was removed.
(5) Volunteer, Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School, Bristol.
(6) Nineteen patients had repetitive, nonlumen-obliterating, nonperistaltic (tertiary) contractions, six had corkscrew esophagus, and 10 had forceful, lumen-obliterating simultaneous contractions (rosary bead esophagus).
(7) Their happiness is irrational and interesting, because it is twin to the fury some express, so personally, towards abortion that they loiter outside family planning clinics with rosaries, believing that the aborting mother is depriving the world of something that comforts it, even if they will never know it; a prayer, in fact.
(8) A new type of vesicles with a marginal, rosary-like arrangement of particles was observed associated with masses of electron-dense particles.
(9) The Vatican's daily newspaper reported that each diver descending to the ship was carrying a rosary blessed by Pope Francis.
(10) Abdullah addressed the press wearing a western suit with a purple tie and pocket square – in contrast to Ghani who wore a traditional white shalwar khameez and thumbed a rosary, a sartorial nod to his Pashtun supporters.
(11) While a rowdy, at times almost carnivalesque protest took place alongside them, the anti-abortion protesters stood or kneeled and prayed quietly, some clutching rosary beads.
(12) Symptoms were similar in the majority of them: irritability, skin haemorrhages, swollen gums, scorbutic rosary, swelling and tenderness lower limbs.
(13) Much has been made of their harassment techniques that range from the insidious (bursting into hymn as tearful women emerge from the clinics, giving out plastic rosary beads in powder pink or baby blue at the door) to the mendacious (leaflets disguised as NHS literature that address the reader as "Mum" and speak of "not being able to look your future children in the eye").
(14) In his autobiography, 14 Minutes – a reference to the time he was clinically dead in 2007 after a massive heart attack – he talks about how, when he ran, he would focus on the mystery of the rosary and Jesus’s life.
(15) We all know that content is king: if you want, say, Test Match Special or the latest grime, you will put up with mediocre sound quality rather than listen to Biber's Rosary Sonatas in stunning stereo, or (in my case) the reverse.
(16) It made a strange chorus: on the one side, a small crowd of Catholics, intoning the rosary and singing Ave Maria, while, a few metres away, a noisy gathering of campaigners banged drums, blew whistles and chanted slogans.
(17) A postcontrast CT scan at the level of the gallbladder body demonstrated the characteristic rosary sign.
(18) Images of the apartment interior show the bodies lying on floors covered in bullet shells and surrounded by rosaries and the images of Catholic saints.
(19) Get your rosaries off my ovaries, as we used to say.
(20) Chatsworth House is lending an object that bears witness to the religious upheaval of her father's reign, the rosary beads once owned by Henry - once ubiquitous objects, which in later years would come to be seen as dangerously heretical.