> I happened to see your webpage, which lists your association with the OED. Could you pass this on to whoever is editing the word pomander?
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> The last citation for meaning 1b is "1650 (title) The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus,..Translated..into English By..Doctor Everard." This treatise is the first of the Hermetica, and is a different word; it represents Greek Ποιμανδρης, the "shepherd of men" (I do not recall the accent).
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> There's a web version at http://gnosis.org/library/hermes1.html, but the standard edition is Corpus Hermiticum, Volume I, edited by A. D. Nock and translated, into French, by A.-J. Festugière. Sociéte ́d’édition "Les Belles lettres", Paris (1945)
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Thanks very much for your e-mail. You are absolutely right;
this is just an error on our part. We'll be removing this
quotation from that entry, and adjusting the forms list.

I appreciate your writing to let us know.

With best wishes,

Jesse Sheidlower
Editor at Large
Oxford English Dictionary