Usually means: Warding off evil or harm.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. apotropaic: Merriam-Webster
  2. apotropaic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apotropaic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apotropaic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apotropaic: Vocabulary.com
  6. apotropaic: Wordnik
  7. apotropaic: Wiktionary
  8. apotropaic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. apotropaic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. apotropaic: Dictionary.com
  11. Apotropaic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. apotropaic: Rhymezone
  13. apotropaic: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. apotropaic: FreeDictionary.org
  15. apotropaic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. apotropaic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. apotropaic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. apotropaic: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apotropaic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apotropaic: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See apotropaically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (apotropaic)

adjective:  (religion, mysticism) Intended to ward off evil.
noun:  An agent intended to ward off evil.

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