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'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Abracadabra}}'''. This symbolic word first occurs in a medical treatise in verse by Samonicus, who flourished in the reign of the Emperor Septimus Seveus. Godfrey Higgins says it is from ''Abra ''or ''Abar ''“God”, in Celtic, and cad ‘‘holy” ; it was used as a charm, and engraved on ''Kameas ''as an amulet. | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Abracadabra}}'''. This symbolic word first occurs in a medical treatise in verse by Samonicus, who flourished in the reign of the Emperor Septimus Seveus. Godfrey Higgins says it is from ''Abra ''or ''Abar ''“God”, in Celtic, and cad ‘‘holy” ; it was used as a charm, and engraved on ''Kameas ''as an amulet. | ||