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  • noun A magical plant, said to be good against enchantments.

Etymologies

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Latin Haemonia a name of Thessaly, the land of magic.

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Examples

  • This is the only certain, and this is the universal, preventive of all debasing superstitions; this is the true haemony ([Greek: haima], blood, [Greek: oinos], wine), which our Milton has beautifully allegorised in a passage strangely overlooked by all his commentators.

    Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 Various

  • Prayer, my sin-beset brethren, standfast prayer, is the otherwise unidentified haemony whose best habitat was the Garden of Gethsemane; and with that holy root in your heart and in your mouth, there is "no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against

    Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878

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  • That beverage that formerly seemed to me

    An ordinary serving of steaming tea

    Was nothing prosaic

    But apotropaic -

    A cup of mysterious haemony.

    April 19, 2018

  • Did it taste laemony?

    April 19, 2018