Meaning of Pentacle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A flat talisman, almost always star-shaped, made of parchment, sheet metal, or other substance, marked with a magic symbol or symbols, used in magical evocation.
2. A pentagram, or a disk with a pentagram on it, especially one that is used for magical or mystical purposes.
3. A circumscribed pentagram.
4. A figure formed by two equilateral triangles intersecting regularly so as to form a six-pointed star.

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Examples

“ouer this pott and the cyrcle hold the pentacles, and perfume them; and say deuoutly theis psalmes followynge”

“of the same pentacles be certayne exorcizmes and names ineffable and carecters and signes of all the science, therefore, in them the whole science of all this art lyeth hydd”

“if ye constraine any spirit to come before you and when ye haue shewed him ye secret pentacles, there is none dare say against your minde”

“he drew a pentacle or five-pointed star.”

“a five-pointed star (pentacle).”

“the figure of the pentacle, or pentagram.”

“The pentacle—a pentagram enclosed within a surrounding circle—as found as the centre-piece on a witch's altar is often worn as a silver pendant by witches and other neo-pagans alike repesenting their beliefs in the interconnectedness and interdependence of the powers of nature and spirit.”

“A pentacle is a pentagram with a circle drawn around it.”

“The pentagram becomes a pentacle when it is enclosed within a circle and inscribed on a disc or stone.”

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