| Main Entry: | exorcism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expelling evil spirits |
Synonyms: |
casting out, ceremony, ejection, expulsion, purification, ritual |
| Main Entry: | dismissal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | release |
Synonyms: |
adjournment, banishment, bounce, brush-off, cold shoulder, congé, deportation, deposal, deposition, discharge, dislodgment, displacement, dispossession, dissolution, door*, end, eviction, exile, exorcism, expatriation, expulsion, freedom, freeing, housecleaning, kiss-off, layoff, liberation, marching orders, notice, old heave-ho, ostracism, ouster, permission, pink slip, relegation, removal, suspension |
Antonyms: |
acceptance, appointment, employment, hiring, maintainance, retention, welcome |
| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supernatural power; appearance |
Synonyms: |
alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | spell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | magical aura over an entity |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, allure, amulet, bewitching, bewitchment, charm, conjuration, enchanting, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, glamour, hex, hexing, hocus-pocus, incantation, jinx, magic, mumbo jumbo, rune, sorcery, talisman, trance, voodoo, whack, whammy, witchery |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
magic, 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, 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: | Spell. |
| Category: | 4. Acts of religion |
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spell, charm, incantation, exorcism, weird, cabala, exsufflation, cantrap, runes, abracadabra, open sesame, countercharm, Ephesian letters, bell book and candle, Mumbo Jumbo, evil eye, fee-faw-fum., talisman, amulet, periapt, telesm, phylactery, philter; fetich, fetish; agnus Dei; furcula, madstone; mascot, mascotte; merrythought; Om, Aum; scarab, scarabaeus; sudarium, triskelion, veronica, wishbone; swastika, fylfot, gammadion., wand, caduceus, rod, divining rod, lamp of Aladdin; wishing-cap, Fortunatus's cap.
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