English Explanatory Dictionary

pantacle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Alternative spelling of pentacle, used by A. E. Waite and probably also some other members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and then by Aleister Crowley.

Word forms

pantacle pantacles

Etymology

This spelling was borrowed into English in 1896 by A. E. Waite, after mid-1800s occult author Eliphas Levi's use of the spelling in French.

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