plectron
Americannoun
plural
plectraExample Sentences
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We do not make Mantic either godless or void of reason, when we give it the soul of man as its material, and the enthusiastic spirit and exhalation as its tool or plectron.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
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