a. rare. [f. L. tāliōn-em (see TALION1) + -IC.] Of or pertaining to the law of talion, or to the rendering of like for like.
1843. Lond. Med. Gaz., XXXIII. 17 Nov., 220/1. I entertain a hope that, in a future world, the cruel investigators may meet a talionic recompense: that the victims will become the operators in turn.
1886. G. Macdonald, What’s Mine’s Mine, v. The growing talionic regard of human relations-that, namely, the conditions of a bargain fulfilled on both sides, all is fulfilled between the bargaining parties.
