Meaning of alectorian | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Stones of baser sort⟳, and yet of singular vertue, are the Chalydonie, or Swallowstone, found in the mawes of young swallowes—against madnesse: and the Alectorian, or Cockes stone, of a waterie color, found in the maw of a cocke, or capon, after hee bee nine years olde—above all commended for giving strength and courage! and wherewith (as it is reported) the famous Milo-Critonien always stood invincible.”

“Who would not carry⟳ about him the alectorian stone, which, held in the mouth, ensures the mastery of the event, appeases thirst, and quells the ardours of the heart?”

“Against such a peril I had provided certain amulets made of the stone alectorian, which groweth in the gizzard of a cock hatched on a moonless night when Saturn burneth in a human sign⟳ and the lord of the third house is in the ascendant.”

“My patients could obtain⟳ from my shops, at their choice, aphrodisiac spectacles or ones that cure love⟳; spectacles made of alectorian stone that cancel⟳ the harmful effect of poisons, others made of chrysoprase that have⟳ the gift of strengthening weakened wills; spectacles that procure a grandiose, thrilling idea of the world, or ones that reduce⟳ it to the dimensions of a reading room . . . ones that give⟳ a blue view⟳ of life or a rose-tinted view⟳; spectacles that induce dreams or suppress them ... in a word, the most fantastic assortment of spectacles imaginable.”

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