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Webster 1913 Edition


Amphicome

Am′phi-come

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] with hair all round;
ἀμφί
+ [GREEK] hair.]
A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination.
[Obs.]
Encyc. Brit.

Webster 1828 Edition


Amphicome

AM'PHICOME

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Noun.
[Gr. hair.]
A kind of figured stone, of a round shape, but rugged and beset with eminences; called Erotylos, on account of its supposed power of exciting love. Anciently, it was used in divination; but it is little known to the moderns.

Definition 2024


amphicome

amphicome

English

Noun

amphicome

  1. (obsolete) A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination.
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