Pentacles

Word PENTACLES
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Definitions and meanings of "Pentacles"

What do we mean by pentacles?

A flat talisman, almost always disk-shaped, made of parchment, sheet metal, or other substance, marked with a magic symbol or symbols, used in magical evocation.

A pentagram, or a disk with a pentagram on it, especially one that is used for magical or mystical purposes.

A circumscribed pentagram.

A figure formed by two equilateral triangles intersecting regularly so as to form a six-pointed star.

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The word "pentacles" in example sentences

The beds are not like normal beds, of course, but are instead cold tables inscribed with pentacles, the lines of which -- at least in the best motels -- are carefully maintained to ensure against breaks where a spirit might slip in. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Six of Pentacles showed a smiling, bearded merchant giving coins shaped like pentacles to two needy figures. ❋ Unknown (2011)

First, they assembled items representing the Minor Arcana of the Tarot: swords, staves, pentacles, and cups. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those correspondences were classically tied to the cardinal directions: water to the west, fire to the south, pentacles to the north, and swords to the east. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The suits of the cards themselves possessed elemental correspondences: cups were tied to the emotional currents of water, wands to the creative spark of fire, pentacles to the grounding forces of earth, and swords to the intellectual powers of air. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Puzzle strong in my bower no pentacles could purchase no swords could fell my wintry edifice with the secret code no fists could knock. ❋ Misti Rainwater-Lites (2011)

Or ... is it the pentacles we have in the house that makes her feel like she should open up about her Goddess needs? ❋ Lyda222 (2009)

I suppose by now it's a moot point whether those components -- the staves, pentacles, friend-foe-foundation items, etc. -- survived the mucking with the timeline. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The pentacles represent earth: someone who is very wealthy; money trouble; buying or selling real estate; an opportunity to make lots of money. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Salt lines glittered on the windowsills, the lintels of doors and windows guarded by tiny pentacles made of woven willow branches. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)

Anya heard chanting and the hiss of salt being poured, smelled strong sage and peppermint oils as she drew pentacles on the doors and lintels. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)

Each suit was associated with an element and an affinity: cups to water and feelings; wands to fire and action; swords to air and realms of thought; and pentacles to earth and prosperity. ❋ Alayna Williams (2010)

She cradled three pentacles in her lap and was crowned by the fourth. ❋ Alayna Williams (2010)

A farmer leaned against a garden hoe, watching seven pentacles blossom in the fertile earth. ❋ Alayna Williams (2010)

But when the case proves undeniably otherwordly, Carnacki finds cause to fight fire with fire: he draws himself and his helpers into pentacles and sigils to protect them against demonic incursions (see the truly terrifying sequence in The House Among the Laurels for a fine example). ❋ Unknown (2010)

I can't see why a couple of California youngn's wouldn't at least have some pentacles and dreamcatchers lying around. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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