Definition of Talionic

1. pertaining to a talion [adj] - See also: talion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Talionic

talers
tales
talesman
talesmen
taleteller
talewise
taleysim
tali
taliation
taligrade
talin
talinum
talinums
talion
talion dread
talionic (current term)
talions
talipat
talipats
taliped
talipedic
talipeds
talipes
talipes arcuatus
talipes calcaneovalgus
talipes calcaneovarus
talipes calcaneus
talipes cavus
talipes equinovalgus

Literary usage of Talionic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"So with talionic penalties: "si membrum rupit,ni cum eo pacit, talio esto"—sncb, according to Gellius, were the words of one of the laws of the Taita, ..."

2. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1912)
"... class of the wrong-doer (a common and characteristic principle of the age); talionic penalties, judicial combat, the ordeal of boiling water, etc. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... been intended to stay the prosecution which it was incumbent on the kinsmen of a murdered man to institute. So with talionic penalties: " si membrum ..."

4. Historical Introduction to the Private Law of Rome by James Muirhead, Henry Goudy (1899)
"So with talionic penalties. " Si membrum rupit, ni cum eo pacit, talio esto," n—such, according to Gellius, were the words of one of the laws of the Tables, ..."

5. Historical Introduction to the Private Law of Rome by James Muirhead (1886)
"So with talionic penalties. " Si membrum rupit, ni cum eo pacit, talio esto,"11—such, according to Gellius, were the words of one of the laws of the Tables, ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"So with talionic penalties: "• membrum rupit ni cum eo pacit, talio esto"—such, according to Gellius, were the words of one of the laws of the Tables, ..."

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