Vítejte na Elemir´s Page, stránkách věnovaných světu Might and Magic a hrám Crusaders of Might and Magic, Arcomage, Requiem, a Lords of Xulima. Are you on the hunt for real free magic spells, high magic spells, mystic magic spells or spellcasting or a genuine spellcaster? Look no further. Mailinator is happy to announce Slack integration across the public email system. That's right, you can now fetch and subscribe to Mailinator inboxes right from your. The Free Dictionarymag. В·ic. В (măj′ĭk)n. The art or practice of using charms, spells, or rituals to attempt to produce supernatural effects or control events in nature. The charms, spells, and rituals so used. The exercise of sleight of hand or conjuring, as in making something seem to disappear, for entertainment. A mysterious quality of enchantment: "For me the names of those men breathed the magic of the past"(Max Beerbohm). Of, relating to, or invoking the supernatural: "stubborn unlaid ghost / That breaks his magic chains at curfew time"(John Milton).
Possessing distinctive qualities that produce unaccountable or baffling effects. В·icked, mag. В·ick. В·ing, mag. В·ics. To produce, alter, or cause by or as if by magic: "Intelligent warm- hearted Gertrude had magicked him into happiness"(Iris Murdoch). To cause to disappear by or as if by magic. Used with away: His shoes had been magicked away in the night.[Middle English magik, from Old French magique, from Late Latin magica, from Latin magicē, from Greek magikē, from feminine of magikos, of the Magi, magical, from magos, magician, magus; see magus.]Magica reliance upon incantations or charms, often inscribed upon amulets, to ward off calamity. Obsolete. forms of magic that require the invocation or assistance of demons. African variety of magical fetishism characterized by the wearing of an exotic amulet called a juju. Africa, the West Indies, and elsewhere. Also called obi, obism. Also called obi. the belief among American Indians that a ceremony characterized by magic, feasting, and dancing can cure disease, ensure the success of a hunt or battle, etc. Also supranaturalism. West Indian black people. Archaic. sorcery; the craft or practice of a warlock. Middle East. 1. the practice of atheism. Zendic, Zendik, n. Zendaic, adj. Magic abracadabra A magical incantation or conjuration; any meaningless magical formula; nonsense, gibberish. Although the precise origin of this ancient rune is not known, it is said to be made up from the initials of the Hebrew words ab ’father,’ ben ‘son,’ and Ruach Acadosch ‘Holy Spirit.’ Formerly believed to have magical healing powers, the word was written in triangular form on parchment and hung from the neck by a linen thread as a charm against disease and adversity. By extension, abracadabra is also commonly used to mean nonsense, jargon, and gibberish, as in: Leave him … to retaliate the nonsense of blasphemy with the abracadabra of presumption. Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, 1. A conjurer’s incantation, a magic formula or charm; sleight of hand, legerdemain; trickery, deception; mumbo jumbo, gobbledegook, nonsense. The original 1. 7th- century meaning of the term, now obsolete, was ‘a juggler, a conjurer.’ According to the OED, this use of the term was apparently an eponymic extension of a certain magician’s assumed name. The name itself is thought to have derived from the mock Latin incantation which he used: ‘Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade céleri ter jubeo.’ It has also been theorized that hocus- pocus was a corruption of the Latin words hoc est corpus ‘here is the body,’ uttered by priests at the consecration of the mass. Magicians and conjurers picked up the sounds in mocking imitation. These insurgent legions … which, by the sudden hocus pocus of political affairs, are transformed into loyal soldiers. Orlando Magic Team News. Height: 6' 1 Weight: 169lbs DOB: 09/23/1989 Prior to NBA: Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, VA). Magical rituals are the precisely defined actions (including speech) used to work magic. Bronisław Malinowski describes ritual language as possessing a high. Washington Irving, Life and Letters, 1. A means of transportation that defies conventional limitations such as gravity, space, or time; a means of reaching any imaginable place. Stories tell of legendary characters who owned magic silk carpets that could be ordered to take a rider wherever he wanted to go. Today the phrase is used figuratively to describe something which has a magical “transporting” effect, such as drugs, or as in the following quotation, a good book. His Magic Carpet is a book of travels, by means of which he is transported into lands that he is fated never to see. Times Literary Supplement, August 2.
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