12 March 2016

sigil

[sij-il]

noun

1. a seal or signet.

Origin of sigil

Latin
1600-1610; < Latin sigillum statuette, figure, stamped figure, diminutive of signum sign; see seal1

Related forms

sigillary [sij-uh-ler-ee], adjective
sigilistic, adjective

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Contemporary Examples

As the sigil of House Tyrell is a rose, the sobriquet is a play on her cunning and prickliness.
‘Game of Thrones’ Season 3 for Dummies
Jace Lacob
March 26, 2013

Today’s quote

I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.

– Voltaire

On this day

12 March 1922 – birth of Jack Kerouac, American beat-generation writer, ‘On the road‘. Died 21 October 1969.

12 March 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi arrested for promoting boycotts and civil unrest. He had campaigned for passive resistance to the British Empire and encouraged followers to not buy anything made in Britain or Europe.

12 March 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi, 61 years old, leads a peaceful protest against the ‘salt tax’ which the British Empire had introduced. He and his followers marched more than 320 km to the salt mines in Jalalpur.

12 March 1945 – death of Anne Frank, author of the ‘Diary of Anne Frank’, from typhus. She was born on 12 June 1929.