"Aegis" is a word in ENGLISH
A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the
shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a
protection.
Our ancestors lived in groups of no more than a few hundred people, and those on the other side of a river or mountain range might as well have been living in a separate world. We developed ethical principles to help us to deal with problems within our community, not to help those outside it. The harms that it was considered wrong to cause were generally clear and well defined. We developed inhibitions against, and emotional responses to, such actions, and these instinctive or emotional reactions still form the basis for much of our moral thinking.
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Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of …
Read the complete definitionAn escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
Read the complete definitionA small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet.
Read the complete definitionThe sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium …
Read the complete definitionFormerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later …
Read the complete definitionIn English law. A device depicted on the (now imagi-nary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is …
Read the complete definitionThe ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity …
Read the complete definitionNot furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens.
Read the complete definitionDivided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.
Read the complete definitionNotched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
Read the complete definitionHaving a shell or covering like a double shield.
Read the complete definitionA shield.
Read the complete definitionAn heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.
Read the complete definitionA border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
Read the complete definitionA protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as …
Read the complete definitionA kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting …
Read the complete definitionTo shield; to defend.
Read the complete definitionA division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a …
Read the complete definitionHaving a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of …
Read the complete definitionThe thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
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