Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A seal; a signet.
- n. A sign or an image considered magical.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A seal; an abbreviated sign or signature; also, an occult stamp, mark, or sign, as in magic or astrology. See signature, 2.
Wiktionary
- n. A seal, signature or signet.
- n. A sign, image or symbol considered to be magical.
- n. programming A nonalphanumeric character affixed to a symbol (e.g. variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A seal; a signature.
Etymologies
- From Latin sigillum. (Wiktionary)
- Latin sigillum, diminutive of signum, sign; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It is true I found by accident a bit of metal, from which I derived the idea of my so-called sigil's appearance.”
“Now: you must always keep this kind of sigil against your flesh for it to work.”
“That mechanism is a "sigil": a special character or string of characters that indicates the beginning of a key.”
“The other booklet I scanned and will post in a while is, I think, the one where he first talked about the 'sigil'.”
“a Mrs. Wright, found in a scarlet bag which she wore under her arm a pure gold "sigil" or round plate worth about ten dollars in gold, which the former husband of the defunct had used to exorcise a spirit that plagued him.”
“Larry brought red, white and black candles into their home, drew a sigil of Baphomet in crayon on a dresser and used a kitchen knife to draw his own blood, according to Marla.”
Mother, community search for answers in death of two girls killed in ritual
“The stars of Game of Thrones pick their sigil, issue royal edicts”
Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke on Daenerys, Drogo and Dothraki Jeggings
“She bent and drew a sigil, and power flickered around them.”
“Sigil: I would love to say dragon because they are clearly the best sigil in Game of Thrones.”
Free Beer! The Stars of Game of Thrones Pick Their Sigil, Issue Royal Edicts
“So TVGuide.com asked them to weigh in on two very important Westerosi subjects: 1. What personal sigil would best represent you?”
Free Beer! The Stars of Game of Thrones Pick Their Sigil, Issue Royal Edicts
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sigil’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Distinguishing Marks
assay-mark, stamp, seal, cedula, cartouse, cachet, brand, mark, hallmark, armorial device, coat of arms, emblem and 150 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Typographic Terms
macron, happy, discombobulated, minuscule, grapheme, grotesque, marginalia, diacritical, circumflex, boustrophedon, allograph, analphabetic and 7 more...
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Marks
names of punctuation marks, accent marks, and other graphic signs and graphical characters used in printed, written, or digital text.
comma, period, parenthesis, apostrophe, colon, semicolon, slash, stroke, brackets, dash, em dash, en dash and 71 more...
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Emblematics
Sigility: avatars and representative figures. Types of symbols: academic, religious, abstract.
avatar, representative, emblem, sigil, semiotics, personification, totemic, creaturism, placeholder, iconolatry, egregore, thoughtform and 24 more...
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Verecund, flivver, etc
Just some words I happen to enjoy. Some thread-worn, some not.
yegg, yob, verecund, amatory, fermata, threepenny, gruntled, flivver, gamboge, decolletage, ordure, nudnik and 173 more...
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
pinguid, triffid, calque, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 214 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (S)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
sabian symbols, saffron, sagacious, sage, salamander, sally lunn, salmon, salsify, salt water taffy, samhain, sand dollar, sandalwood and 270 more...
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collection
sanguine, vie, antebellum, glacial, treacly, iconoclast, lissom, anathema, serendipity, parsimonious, histrionic, contemptuous and 279 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1401 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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wasserperson's Words
kakistocracy, telebomb, adroit, pensive, verbatim, asinine, anarchic, didactic, subsequent, mirthful, gregarious, sybarite and 102 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
Tweets
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treeseed A sigil (pronounced /'sɪdʒ.ɪl/ or /'sɪg.ɪl/; pl. sigilia or sigils) is a symbol created for a specific magical purpose. A sigil is usually made up of a complex combination of several specific symbols or geometric figures each with a specific meaning or intent.
The term sigil derives from the Latin sigilum meaning "seal," though it may also be related to the Hebrew סגולה (segulah meaning "word, action or item of spiritual effect"). The old Norse binding rune is an example of the idea. A sigil may have an abstract, pictorial or semi-abstract form. It may appear in any medium -- physical, virtual, or mental. Visual symbols are the most popular form, but the use of aural and tactile symbols in magic is not unheard of.
_Wikipedia Feb 11, 2008