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TALISMAN, a magical charm. The word is often used as a term synonymous with amulet (g.v.), but strictly should be applied to an inanimate object which is supposed to possess a supernatural Capacity of conferring benefits or powers, an amulet being that which p ...

... use of dissension and bloodshed, and was often discussed as if it were a vulgar talisman. Serapion of Thmuis in Egypt, a younger contemporary of Athanasius, in his Eucharistic prayers combines the language of the Didache with a high sacramentalism alien to tha ...

... or an instant. As a popularizer of Renan and of the view of the Bible, not as a talisman but as a literature, and, again, as a chastener of his contemporaries by means of the iteration of a few telling phrases about philistincs, barbarians, sweetness and light ...