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A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

Abraxas, of course, held center stage, roughly where a huge cross and Jesus might have hung behind the altar long ago during the brief Christian era. — Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
Abraxas is the sun and also the eternally gaping abyss of emptiness, of the diminisher and dissembler, the devil. — Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
Abraxas, however, speaks the venerable and also accursed word, which is life and death at once. — Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
“We are always united in the flame of Abraxas,” he/it said. — Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
“Oh, Abraxas, embracer of all opposites, terror of the sun, heart of the sun, help us,” prayed Old Adam. — Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)