Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of an order of beings, the life-principles or geniuses or tutelary spirits of living beings, believed in and reverenced by the ancient Persians, adherents of the Zoroastrian religion.
- noun A name given, very questionably, to a symbol seen on monuments of ancient Persian origin, representing a winged circle, with or without a manlike figure in it, hovering over the head of a king or other person, and believed by some to represent his tutelary spirit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Archæol.) A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.
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- noun archaeology A
symbol of thesolar deity , found onmonuments exhumed inBabylon ,Nineveh , etc.
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Examples
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M.xican feroher, engraved on a tablet of gypsum, and which is described at length by its discoverer, Captain du Paix, and depicted by his friend, M. Baradère.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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On the Mexican feroher before alluded to, and which is most elaborately carved in bass-relief on a massive piece of polygonous granite, constituting a portion of a cyclopean wall, the cross is enclosed within the ring, and accompanying it are four tassel-like ornaments, graved equally well.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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