medals

Noun

medal (plural medals)

1. A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
   • Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals, benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?, II.i.3
2. A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.
3. (obsolete) A Roman coin worth half a denarius.

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