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Definition of Talion
1. n. Retaliation.
Definition of Talion
1. Noun. Retaliation; retribution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Talion
1. a retaliation for a crime [n -S]
Medical Definition of Talion
1. The principle of retribution in intrapsychic behaviour. Origin: Welsh tal, compensation (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Talion
Literary usage of Talion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636-1776 by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Council of Safety (Conn.), Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1890)
"talion &c. for Quebec, and pass'd &c., to be 8 companies, 90 men each, officers
included.* NB If did it in extream pain with tooth ache. ..."
2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"L. talion of a future state, were never entirely extinguished. And whosoever
among the Gentiles at any time, or in any nation, feared God and was a worker ..."
3. The Newgate Calendar: Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious by Andrew Knapp, William Lee. Baldwin (1825)
"... repu. talion appeared in his behalf, and spoke to his character in the 'most
favorable terms: but both the forgery and the uttering the conn. terfeit ..."
4. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"When a seed is placed in a situation favourable to Tege- talion, it very soon
changes its appearance ; the radicle is converted into a root, and sinks into ..."
5. The Twenty-second Pennsylvania Cavalry and the Ringgold Battalion, 1861-1865 by Samuel Clarke Farrar (1911)
"talion, for promotion to the position of Lieutenant Colonel. It is desirable to
fill up the command of Captain Greenfield and make it a regiment; ..."
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