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/ˈmad͡ʒɪk/ · noun
The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them..
“My magic will help you find true love,” said the witch as she looked for the right herbs in her collection.
And whan he shall be arrayed as I telle you / lete hym thenne doo his incantacyons & his magyke as he wyll […].
But by what magique I, that here have ſtood / Four hunderd yeares (thou know’ſt how truly ſpoke), / Can now remove, think’ſt thou?
The arts of magic and divination were strictly prohibited.
Does not the very name stir the heart [...] with a thrill more mysterious and romantic than any allusion to the magics of Egypt or Hind?
Conversions to the new religion […] have frequently been assisted by the view of converts that they are acquiring not just a means of otherworldly salvation, but a new and more powerful magic.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
The original family who had begun to build a palace to outrival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
Use magic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Magic means The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them..
Common synonyms include bewitchery, black arts, charmwork, conjuration.
Possible antonyms include maladroit.
“My magic will help you find true love,” said the witch as she looked for the right herbs in her collection.
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