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anachitis (uncountable)

  1. (rare) In divination, a stone used for various purposes.
    • 1850 June 29, Scientific American, volume 5, number 41:
      [] it will begin to suppose that something was overlooked, and say "this cannot be a true diamond," because Pliny says "the diamond destroys the effect of poisons and cures diseases, on which account it is called, by some, anachitis."
    • 1904, Henry Carrington Bolton, The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II: 1576-1612, page 172:
      [] the liver of the chameleon burned raiseth showers and thunders; the stone heliotrope dazzles the sight and makes him that wears it invisible; the stone synochitis brings up infernal ghosts; and ghosts; and the stone anachitis makes images of the gods appear.

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