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▪ I. magic, n.|ˈmædʒɪk|
Forms: 4–6 magike, magyke, (5 malgyk, 6 magict, magika), 4–7 magique, 7–8 magick, 7 magic.
[ad. OF. magique, ad. late L. magica (Pliny has magicē = Gr. µαγική sc. τέχνη), subst. use (by ellipsis of ars art) of the fem. of magicus magic a.
In the mod. Rom. langs. the place of the word is taken by the cognate F. magie, It., Sp., Pg. magia, ad. med.L. magīa, a. Gr. µαγεία f. µάγος Magus.]
1. a. The pretended art of influencing the course of events, and of producing marvellous physical phenomena, by processes supposed to owe their efficacy to their power of compelling the intervention of spiritual beings, or of bringing into operation some occult controlling principle of nature; sorcery, witchcraft. Also, the practice of this art.
The ‘magic’ which made use of the invocation of evil or doubtful spirits was of course always regarded as sinful; but natural magic, i. e. that which did not involve recourse to the agency of personal spirits, was in the Middle Ages usually recognized as a legitimate department of study and practice, so long as it was not employed for maleficent ends. Of ‘natural magic’ as understood by mediæval writers, typical examples are the making of an image, under certain astrological conditions, in order to injure or benefit the health of the person represented; and the application of a medicament to a weapon in order to heal the wound made by it. These things, if now practised, would still be called ‘magic’, though the qualification ‘natural’ would seem quite inappropriate. On the other hand, the ‘natural magic’ of the Middle Ages included much that from the standpoint of modern science is ‘natural’, but not ‘magical’, the processes resorted to being really, according to the now known laws of physical causation, adapted to produce the intended effects.
c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 116 They speken of Magyk and Abusion. 1390Gower Conf. III. 46 Magique he useth forto winne His love. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 268 The myht of malgyk or enchauntement. 1490Caxton Eneydos xxiv. 88 She inuoqued..the moder of magyque in her triple proporcyon. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxvi. (Percy Soc.) 189 My swerde..set with magykes arte. 1569Bp. Parkhurst Injunctions Articles to be inquired of ⁋29 Whether ye know any that vse any sorcerie Inchantments, Magika [etc.]. 1581N. Burne Disput. xxii. 102 b, As for the practeis of magict I micht obiect vnto you Willox, quhais sone raised the deuil. c1590Marlowe Faust Prol., Nothing so sweete as magicke is to him. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. x. 89 When they cannot flie up to heaven to make it a Miracle, they fetch it from hell to make it Magick. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xxiii. (1869) I. 649 The arts of magic and divination were strictly prohibited. 1867W. W. Smyth Coal & Coal-mining 194 It is like an effect of magic to pass, with the safety-lamp in hand, into a fiery stall. 1884H. Jennings Phallicism ii. 8 Magic, which means the unnatural interference with nature.
b. With defining adj. black magic [= F. magie noire]: a designation given by modern writers to the kind of magic that was supposed to involve the invocation of devils; opposed to white magic [= F. magie blanche]. natural magic: see above.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 176 And Clerkes eke which konne wel Alle this magikes naturel That craftely doon her ententes To maken in certeyn ascendentes Ymages, lo, thrugh which magike To make a man ben hool or syke. c1386― Prol. 416. 1477 Norton Ord. Alch. i. in Ashm. (1652) 21 And also of Magique naturall. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iv. §11 Natural magic pretendeth to call and reduce natural philosophy from variety of speculations to the magnitude of works. 1718F. Hutchinson Witchcraft ii. (1720) 34 White Magic, that pretends to deal only with Good Angels. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 125 What with slavery and what with black-magic, life is precarious among the Wakhutu.
†c. A magical procedure or rite; also concr. a magical object, a charm, fetish. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 210 It is rather lyk An apparence ymaad by som Magyk. 1573L. Lloyd Pilgr. Princes 37 There are diuers kindes of these Magicks, whereby they bragge and boast that they are able to do any thing, and that they know hereby all things. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars ii. xi, To sing..Of gloomie Magiques, and benumming Charmes. 1814Brackenridge Jrnl. in Views Louisiana 256 Besides their public resident lodge, in which they have a great collection of magic, or sacred things, every one has his private magic in his lodge about his person. Ibid. 257 On these occasions, each one suspends his private magic on a high pole before his door.
d. like magic: without any apparent explanation; with incredible rapidity. (Cf. like a., etc. B. I b.)
1857Knickerbocker Jan. 98 Broiled chicken and oysters..disappeared from before us like magic. 1900Congress. Rec. 9 Jan. 704/2 Germany's Chinese trade is increasing like magic.
2. fig. A secret and overmastering influence resembling magic in its effects.
1611Shakes. Winter T. v. iii. 39 Oh Royall Peece: There's Magick in thy Maiestie. a1631Donne Poems (1650) 19 All such rules, loves magique can undoe. 1702Eng. Theophrast. 104 Civility is a strong Political magick. 1792S. Rogers Pleas. Mem. ii. 26 The Moon..gilds the brow of night With the mild magic of reflected light. 1805Foster Ess. iv. v. 192 A transforming magic of genius. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall iii. 28 The work of the house is performed as if by magic, but it is the magic of system. 1837Disraeli Venetia i. xviii, What mourner has not felt the magic of time? 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xi. 60 Won over by the magic of his personal presence.
3. transf. The art of producing (by legerdemain, optical illusion, or devices suggested by knowledge of physical science) surprising phenomena resembling the pretended results of ‘magic’; conjuring.
1831Brewster (title) Natural Magic. Mod. Advt., Professor —'s Home of Magic and Mystery.
4. Comb., as magic-monger; magic-gifted, magic-like, magic-planted, magic-tempered adjs.; magic-man, a magician, sorcerer; also fig.
1811W. R. Spencer Poems 49 [Painting's] *magic-gifted hand.
1862Lytton Str. Story II. 223 That wand, of which I have described to you the *magic-like effects.
1905Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 3/2 Disease was thought to be a visitation of supernatural wrath, to be appeased by offerings to the priests and *magic-men of the time. 1923R. Graves Whipperginny 51 Time and Space, folly's wonder, Three-card shufflers, magic-men! 1959Halas & Manvell Technique Film Animation v. 62 Magic-men, mummers and actors wore masks in earlier times to typify..the farcical, the comic, the eccentric, the pathetic, the tragic and the insane in human portraiture.
1635–56Cowley Davideis i. 519 note, Which Texts..are ill produc'd by the *Magick-mongers for a Proof of the Power of Charms. 1852J. H. Newman Callista (1856) 168 Mere atheists and magic-mongers.
1759Mason Caractacus 2 These mighty piles of *magic-planted rock.
1777Warton Poems 71 The monarch's massy blade Of *magick temper'd metal made.
▪ II. magic, a.|ˈmædʒɪk|
[a. F. magique (= Pr. magic, Sp. mágico, It., Pg. magico), ad. L. magic-us, ad. Gr. µαγικός, lit. pertaining to the Magi, f. µάγος: see Magus.]
1. a. Of or pertaining to magic (freq. in phr. † art magic, magic arts, etc.). Also, working or produced by enchantment. Not in predicative use.
1390Gower Conf. II. 259 Jason..Upon Medea made him bold, Of art magique, which sche couthe. a1547Surrey æneid iv. (1557) F iij, To magike artes against my will I bend. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon iv, Set him but Non-plus in his magicke spels. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. i. 26 Sorcerers..By Magick Verses haue contriu'd his end. 1634Milton Comus 798 Till all thy magick structures rear'd so high, Were shatter'd into heaps o're thy false head. 1658Waller æneis iv. Poems (1664) 189 With loose hair The Magick Prophetess begins her prayr. 1679Dryden Troilus & Cr. ii. iii, He may know his man without art magic. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. iv. 175 Whilst into various Forms her Magick Hand Doth turn those Men. 1736Gray Statius i. 54 The sun's pale sister, drawn by magic strain. 1767Sir W. Jones Seven Fount. in Poems (1777) 41 A..joyless place, A scene of nameless deeds, and magick spells. 1830Pusey Hist. Enq. ii. 289 By some magic process [to] form the dissevered members into a frame of more youthful vigour.
b. Of a material object, a diagram, etc.: Employed in magic rites, endued with magic powers, enchanted. magic glass, magic mirror: one in which the spectator is supposed to see the representation of future events or distant scenes; often fig.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 446 This..With noxious Weeds..Dire Stepdames in the Magick Bowl infuse. 1712Steele Spect. No. 332 ⁋1 They describe a sort of Magick Circle. 1786Burns To J. S. xii, Where Pleasure is the Magic-wand, That, wielded right, Maks Hours like Minutes [etc.]. 1792S. Rogers Pleas. Mem. i. 91 Memory—What softened views thy magic glass reveals. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. i, And in this manner vanishes King Lackland; traverses swiftly our strange intermittent magic-mirror. 1870L'Estrange Life Miss Mitford I. vi. 185 The possessor of a magic crystal ball. 1877W. Jones Finger-ring 107 A portrait of Hadrian, engraved with Mercury in a magic ring. 1903F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 158 Just as the magic mill of the fable continues magical.
†c. Addicted to magic. Obs. rare.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 24 A Magique Nation.
2. Producing wonderful appearances or results, like those commonly attributed to sorcery. magic box: applied colloq. to various, esp. electronic, devices; magic carpet: a legendary carpet on which a person could be transported wherever he wished; also transf. and fig.; Magic Marker: the proprietary name of an instrument, consisting of a tube of quick-drying ink and a felt-tipped pen, used for marking objects; also magic marker.
1696[see magic lantern]. 1744Akenside Pleas. Imag. i. 16 The glances of her magic eye, She blends and shifts at will. 1826Scott Rev. Life Kemble in Lockhart ii. (1839) 22/1 The vain longings which we felt that..the magic curtain [would] once more arise. 1842Tennyson Day-Dream, Arrival iv, The Magic Music in his heart Beats quick and quicker. 1877C. Geikie Christ xlix. (1879) 589 Water at all times is a magic word in a sultry climate like Palestine. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. ix. 189 From San Diego to Sixteenth Street, Chicago, let the magic carpet be laid down. Hurry! oh, hurry! 1909H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay iv. i. 434, I had to come off my magic carpet and walk once more in the world. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 625/2 His Magic Carpet is a book of travels, by means of which he is transported into lands that he is fated never to see. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 74/2 Magic box, crooked farobank box in which 53 instead of 52 cards are manipulated by dealer. 1935J. Hargan Gloss. Prison Lang. 5 Magic-box, coil arrangement which starts any car—without the aid of key. 1936Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 15/5 (heading) Nicknames of the freight expresses... The Magic Carpet is not from Arabia, but Kidderminster, bringing fine weaves to London's floors. 1945Daily Mirror 15 Aug. 4/2 Most sensational development was the ‘Magic Box’, which gave our pilots a picture of the ground beneath them even though it was hidden by darkness and cloud. 1956Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 4 Dec. TM5/2 Speedry Products, Inc., Richmond Hill, N.Y... Magic Marker. Applicant disclaims the term ‘Marker’ apart from the mark as a whole. For Felt Nib Marking Pens Comprising Small Containers for Such Ink, Equipped with Caps and having Felt Nibs at their Ends for Marking. First use on or about Sept. 1, 1952. 195920th Cent. Nov. 325 Both radio receivers and television sets have been known and called for brief periods ‘magic boxes’. 1960Guardian 22 Mar. 10/4 The job of the ‘magic boxes’ in the wheelhouse is to take some of the chance out of trawling. 1960D. Lessing In Pursuit of English vi. 204 The yapping..of the..puppies distracted Flo from her magic box. 1960L. Meynell Bandaberry viii. 127, I had suddenly an immense desire to get on a magic carpet and float away..to some carefree place. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File xxxii. 209 A slim green file; on the cover it said ‘Henry’ in magic-marker lettering. 1964‘S. Forbes’ Long Hate (1966) ii. 16 Block letters. Magic Marker, unquestionably. Children used Magic Markers in school these days. 1971R. Russell tr. Ahmad's Shore & Wave vii. 59 Nur Jahan felt as though she were on a magic carpet soaring towards the sky. 1971C. Bonington Annapurna South Face App. B 255 Magic markers 20. 1973‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed xiii. 120 With chalk, magic markers, but most often with..aerosol spray paint, the pitch was marked out with slogans. 1974D. Mackenzie Zaleski's Percentage iv. 94 That restaurant's his magic carpet. If they take it away from him, he'll never stop falling.
3. magic square: a diagram consisting of a square divided into smaller squares, in each of which a number is written, their position being so arranged that the sum of the figures in a row, vertical, horizontal, or diagonal, is always the same. magic circle: (a) an arrangement of numbers in concentric circles with radial divisions, with arithmetical properties similar to those of the magic square; invented by Benj. Franklin in 1749; (b) the title of a society of conjurers; (c) a circle used in magic as a protection against evil; (d) a small group of people who are privileged to receive confidential information, make important decisions, etc.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn., Magick Square. 1749Franklin Let. Wks. 1887 II. 159 You will readily allow this square of sixteen to be the most magically magical of any magic square ever made by any magician. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) X. 422 Dr. Franklin..has constructed, not only a magic square of squares, but likewise a magic circle of circles. [Description follows.] 1892Barnard Smith & Hudson Arithm. for Sch. 19 Magic and nasik squares. 1912Magic Wand Aug. 377/2 (heading) ‘The Magic Circular’.—A monthly review of the magic art, issued for private circulation only amongst members of the Magic Circle. 1934Webster, Magic circle, i. a. A circle drawn by a magician about any person or place, within which demons raised by incantations were believed to have no power. b. A clearly defined place, group, or the like, entrance into which is regarded as desirable, pleasing, etc. 1955Radio Times 22 Apr. 32/3 All this week magicians from all over the world are gathering to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Magic Circle. 1965Listener 10 June 859/1 Kaiser wrote a series of plays centred on the love of two people. The pattern is throughout the same: the lovers are enclosed in a kind of magic circle which isolates them from the rest of the world. 1971G. Mitchell Lament for Leto ii. 51 He..was an amateur conjuror and..was ‘on the fringe of the Magic Circle’. 1973Jrnl. Genetic Psychology CXXII. 168 The complete, circular form of the Ufos is reminiscent of the mandala or ‘magic circle’: i.e., totality. 1974E. Ambler Dr. Frigo i. 65 Could he have concluded belatedly that letting me into the magic circle had been a mistake..? 1974Times 13 Nov. 16/7 The Tories..would be making a profound mistake if they were to take the right to decide their leader out of the exclusive hands of the elected MPs and put it back into those of some kind of new-furbished Magic Circle.
4. magic (chain-)stitch (see quot. 1900).
1900Day & Buckle Art in Needlework 41 A playful variation upon chain-stitch..is effected by the use of two threads of different colour... The light thread disappears, and comes out again to the left of the dark one...This ‘magic stitch’..is to be found in Persian, Indian, and Italian Renaissance work. 1934M. Thomas Dict. Embroidery Stitches 34 Chain stitch—chequered, also known as magic stitch and magic chain stitch. 1957M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 329/2 Magic Chain-stitch... Chain-stitch worked with two threads of different colors in one needle.
5. Nuclear Physics. Applied to a set of numbers which correspond to nuclei of exceptional stability when either the number of protons or the number of neutrons in it is equal to one of the set (now taken to be 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and perhaps 184); hence applied to nuclei containing such a number of protons or neutrons; doubly magic, containing a magic number of protons and also a magic number (not necessarily the same) of neutrons. Occas. extended to an analogous set of numbers (see quot. 1974) for electrons in atoms.
1949O. Haxel et al. in Physical Rev. LXXV. 1766/1 A simple explanation of the ‘magic numbers’ 14, 28, 50, 82, 126 follows at once from the oscillator model of the nucleus. 1956Nature 28 Jan. 159/1 The current work on fast-neutron capture..refines the earlier studies by D. J. Hughes of the variation of cross-section with atomic weight which..throws more light on the magic-number nuclei. 1969Physics Lett. XXVIIIb. 544/2 Since the nucleon shells at Z = 114, N = 184 are not as ‘magic’ as those at Z = 82, N = 126, we would not expect an unusually small capture cross section for 294110. 1969Nature 27 Dec. 1253/2 In calcium-40 which, like lead-208, is doubly magic and so a suitable isotope for nuclear structure calculations, the protons have been found to bunch together towards the centre of the nucleus. 1971Ibid. 12 Feb. 451/2 One complication is that for heavier nuclei, the magic numbers probably differ for neutrons and protons. 1971Physics Bull. Dec. 711/2 Much interest has been aroused by the prediction that the nucleus (A = 298, Z = 114) may be a doubly magic nucleus.., which could involve an island of stability in the mass region around 300. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 484/1 The magic numbers for atoms are 2, 10, 18, 36, 54, and 86.
6. In weakened use as an enthusiastic term of commendation: superlatively good, excellent, ‘fantastic’. colloq.
1956R. Barr Long Arm (unpubl. film-script) 100 Ward: Good with locks too, eh? Thomas: Magic! 1975Guardian 26 May 11/3 Finally we ate in a pizza parlour. ‘What's this pisser?’ asked Jimmy. ‘It's magic,’ Gordon told him. 1976Scotsman 24 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 5/1 ‘Oh, aye,’ said Jock graciously, ‘he's magic with that mashie.’ 1987Weekend Tel. 15 Aug. p. i/7 As I watched the rushes with diminishing anxiety, I found myself agreeing with our producer's favourite comment: magic.
Add:[2.] [a.] magic bullet colloq. (chiefly Med.) [prob. tr. G. Zauberkugel, attributed to Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German medical scientist, in connection with his search for a cure for syphilis], a therapeutic agent that is highly specific for the organism or disorder concerned, esp. one not yet discovered or isolated; also transf.
[1936G. B. Shaw Millionairess Pref. 127 War is like the seven magic bullets which the devil has ready to sell for a human soul. Six of them may hit the glorymonger's mark very triumphantly; but the seventh plays some unexpected and unintended trick that upsets the gunman's apple cart.] 1940Life 4 Mar. 74/3 In 1910 the little physician who said: ‘We must learn to shoot microbes with *magic bullets’, was acclaimed for ‘the greatest single therapeutic agent known to medicine’. 1949M. Marquardt Paul Ehrlich ix. 91 The antibodies..are Magic Bullets, which find their target by themselves. 1954Antibiotics & Chemotherapy IV. 250 Paul Ehrlich..once said, ‘We have to learn to make magic bullets, which, like those of the ancient fable, will not miss the mark and will destroy only those pathogenic agents they are aimed at.’ 1976Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 Sept. 1286/3 Laetrile, no longer claimed to be a ‘magic bullet’ that destroys cancer cells with cyanide. 1988Times 24 Mar. 5/2 Monoclonal antibodies, popularly known as ‘magic bullets’, can be directed against cancer cells, bacteria and viruses. 1990Gay Times May 10/4 Finding a ‘magic bullet’ against HIV is a daunting task; some experts believe it is impossible. 1992Jrnl. (Milwaukee) 25 July a6/1 No one has yet found a magic bullet for quickly cutting Milwaukee's crime rate.
magic mushroom colloq. (orig. U.S.), any of several types of mushroom with hallucinogenic properties, esp. one containing psilocybin.
1966N.Y. Times 21 Mar. 1/3 It damn near turned into a recipe-swapping session for peyote and the magic mushrooms. 1982Sunday Times 28 Nov. 14/7 The magic mushroom, psilocybin [sic] semilanceata, produces hallucinogenic effects comparable to LSD. It grows widely in Britain, but is particularly plentiful in west Wales. 1991J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again 569 The next day we have the last of some magic mushrooms and Stuart gets so loose he takes off all his clothes.
magic realism Art and Lit. [tr. G. magischer Realismus (coined in 1924 by Franz Roh and used in 1925 in the subtitle of his book Nach-Expressionismus)], orig. a style of painting which depicts fantastic or bizarre images in a precise representationalist manner (first used in German to describe the work of members of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement); transf., any artistic or esp. literary style in which realistic techniques such as naturalistic detail, narrative, etc., are similarly combined with surreal or dreamlike elements.
1933J. Leftwich tr. F. Werfel's Saverio's Secret in Yisroël 526 You will find it in all the little shop windows in the rue de la Boëtie, that magic realism which is the new word. 1963B. S. Myers Expressionism v. §29 229 In the hands of progressive Germans of the twenties (as with the Americans Charles Sheeler and Georgia O'Keefe, the Frenchman Pierre Roy, and others), Magic Realism is a meaningful and historically important movement. 1970R. S. Rudder tr. A Serrano-Plaja (title) ‘Magic’ realism in Cervantes. 1987M. Atwood Sunrise in Bluebeard's Egg 246 People bought her paintings though not for ultra-top prices, especially after magic realism came back in. 1991E. J. Smyth Postmodernism & Contemp. Fiction i. 34 Fantasy also figures centrally in the work of Salman Rushdie, its interfusion with the more prosaic material demonstrating Rushdie's incorporation into the novel in English of the exuberant magic realism developed by South Americans such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
magic realist n. and a.
1943Miller & Barr Amer. Realists & Magic Realists 5 The subject, Realists and Magic Realists, was chosen to demonstrate a widespread but not yet generally recognized trend in contemporary American art. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. p. xxix/2 For his intensity of vision he [sc. Charles Sheeler] may well be considered a forerunner of the Magic Realists. 1981N.Y. Times 11 Oct. vii. 36/4 A number of Chicano writers admit what critics of contemporary Latin American fiction call ‘magic realist’ elements into their work. 1990Sunday Tel. 18 Feb. 50/5 The magic realist mode frees him from any obligation to make the incidents he devises probable or in any way convincing.
b. Effecting or permitting change, development, success, etc., as if by magic; all-important, crucial, momentous.
1861Dickens Great Expect. ii. xiv. 224, I requested a waiter..to show us to a private sitting room. Upon that, he pulled out a napkin, as if it were a magic clue without which he couldn't find the way up-stairs, and led us to the blackhole of the establishment. 1869L. M. Alcott Little Women II. iv. 49 ‘I think the money is the best part of it. What will you do with such a fortune?’ asked Amy, regarding the magic slip of paper with a reverential eye. 1916Joyce Portrait of Artist (1969) ii. 65 Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment. 1938I. Kuhn Assigned to Adventure iii. 26 The thing I wanted most was a by-line—that magic inch of print above a story I had written which would identify me as the author of the gem. 1986Observer 17 Aug. 29/1 The gold price has refused—as yet—to break through the ‘magic’ $400-an-ounce barrier that chartists (and gold-bugs) cherish. 1993Sci. News 30 Oct. 280/2 The magic ingredient? Polyacrylamide (PAM), a long-chain molecule commonly used to clean waste water.
▪ III. magic, v.|ˈmædʒɪk|
[f. the n.]
trans. To transform, make, etc., (as if) by magic; also to magic (something) away, to cause, as if magically, to disappear.
1906Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 304 There was Oak and Ash and Thorn enough in that year-end shower to magic away a thousand memories. 1909L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxiv. 282, I actually have a half-guilty feeling as if I had ‘magicked’ it [sc. a storm] up. 1925W. de la Mare Miss Jemima 31, I discovered, as if the Fairy Creature herself had magicked it there..a large hay-wain. 1952A. Grimble Pattern of Islands v. 104 A steel hook bought from a trade-store could only be magicked once, as a finished article. 1957J. Frame Owls do Cry ix. 38 It was to have these things sitting in their head, like a charm, to magic away the drudgery. 1966New Statesman 25 Nov. 792/2 Children, who are still capable of being magicked, will, I hope, get it for Christmas. Though it's not a children's book. 1972Times 16 Feb 13/3 We cannot magic them away. 1973D. Francis Slay-Ride iv. 56 He magicked some huge open sandwiches on about a foot of French loaf. |