Meaning of epimacus | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of opinicus.

rare

Examples

“Supporters 2 Epimacus’s, the Necks purfled and the ſlip of their Bellies Or, Beaked Sable and Wings extending upward gules.”

“Here are a great collection of antique gems in intaglio; a canopus of agate, an epimacus of chalcedony; a head of Tiberius of one ſingle turquoiſe as large as a hen’s egg, a very great curioſity: […]”

“The Opinicus, or Epimacus / This creature appears to be a variety of the griffin family.”

“It would be a very interesting but a lengthy task to trace out the origin and history of the various traditional monsters, such as the basilisk, the gorgon, the cockatrice, the salamander, and the epimacus, which have come into European legend and belief, and to give some account of the special deadly qualities of each.”

“Thus were born from credulity, fancy and fertile imagination, in successive ages, dragons, medusas, basilisks, salamanders, gorgons and unicorns, the cocatrice, the epimacus and the seductive mermaid.”

“On another shield is engraved the Company’s crest—an epimacus, an imaginary beast resembling a griffin.”

“[…] a shop named Charms and Marvels, the marvelousness if it supposedly a presence of wizards with magical powers to clothe a naked visitor like myself in the wink of an eye and free of charge, but where instantly its marionettes, foliage on bureaus, specimens in apothecaries’ gallipots, taxidermized epimacuses, hippogriffs, manticores, and unbashful bijou putti sprung to life; […]”

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