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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | medieval science |
| Synonyms: | black arts, black magic, hermetics, magic, pseudo science, sorcery, thaumaturgy, witchcraft, wizardry |
| Notes: | occamy was an alloy imitating silver, the counterpart to alchemy, alloy imitating gold |
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| Main Entry: | necromancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sorcery |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, alchemy, bewitchment, black art, black magic, charm, conjuring, devilry, divination, enchantment, evil eye, hocus-pocus, incantation, jinx, magic, mumbo jumbo, mysticism, occultism, spell, thaumaturgy, voodoo, witchcraft, witchery, witching, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | sorcery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black magic, witchcraft |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, alchemy, bewitchment, black art, charm, conjuring, devilry, divination, enchantment, evil eye, hocus-pocus, hoodoo, incantation, jinx, magic, mumbo jumbo, necromancy, spell, thaumaturgy, voodoo, witchery, witching, wizardry |
| Antonyms: | reality |
| Main Entry: | voodoo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black magic |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, alchemy, black art, charm, conjuring, devilry, divination, enchantment, evil eye, hocus-pocus, hoodoo, jinx, mumbo jumbo, necromancy, obeah, obi, sorcery, spell, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | prestidigitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | magic |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuration, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, power, prediction, presage, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo*, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thaumaturgy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | magic |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuration, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell*, superstition, taboo*, theurgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, witchery, witching, wizardry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | theurgy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | magic |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuration, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell*, superstition, taboo*, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, witchery, witching, wizardry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Pythian, adumbrative, aeaeae, apocalyptic, apotropaic, attuned, beatific, blessed, blissed, celestial, chaldean, charmed, chimerical, deep, devoid, disembodied, divine, eerie, elevated, ethereal, evanescent, exalted, existential, extrasensory, fatidic, hagborn, hermetic, holy, hypnotic, imaginary, incantatory, integrated, magic, magical, mantic, mystic, mystical, numinous, occult, oneiric, orphic, pacific, paranormal, phylacteric, positive, preternatural, psychedelic, psychic, realized, sacred, sensitive, sibylline, spellbound, stoicheiotical, sublime, supernal, supernatural, supersensible, supreme, surrealistic, talismanic, telestically, thaumaturgical, touched, transcendental, tuned, uncanny, unfamiliar, unimaginable, unreal, vatic, weird
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| Concept: | Sorcery. |
| Category: | 4. Acts of religion |
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-nouns
sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy; demonology, demonomy, demonship; diablerie, bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetichism, feticism; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism [Esquimaux], vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force; electrobiology, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning., divination (prediction); sortilege, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae; hocus-pocus (deception) [more].
-verbs
practice sorcery; cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate (influence); taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.
-adjectives
magic, magical; mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory; charmed; Circean, odyllic, voodoo.
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