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Definition of Periapts
1. periapt [n] - See also: periapt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Periapts
Literary usage of Periapts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"He says et' Job that he did not, when sick, "bind periapts about him " (Adv.
Judie. Hum. viii. § 6) ; and of Lazarus that " he did not bind plates of metal ..."
2. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"7) ' " What should we say of those who use incantations and periapts, and bind
brass coins of Alexander the Macedonian about their heads and feet? ..."
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