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magical, a.|ˈmædʒɪkəl|
[f. magic a. + -al1.]
1. a. Of or pertaining to magic; = magic a. 1.
1555Eden Decades 181 They..vsed certeine secreate magicall operations. c1590Marlowe Faust i, Come, shewe me some demonstrations magical. c1610Women Saints 146 The superstition of the Christians, whose magicall artes do make them verie bragge. 1665Glanvill Def. Vanity Dogm. 35 Those strange operations are not Mechanical but Magical. 1692Locke Toleration iii. x. Wks. 1727 II. 427 To confound the magical delusions of the Hereticks of that time. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iii. (1840) 63 Two things..naturally made way for these magical studies. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 253 Some thought his musical assembly only a cover..for magical purposes. 1863Froude Hist. Eng. VII. 74 The service of God was asserted to be a reasonable service of the mind and heart, and not a magical superstition.
†b. = magic a. 1 b. Obs.
1623Webster Duchess Malfi iv. i, It wastes me more, Than were't my picture, fashion'd out of wax, Stucke with a magicall needle, and then buried. 1624Middleton Game at Chess iii. ii, This is the room he did appear to me in; And, look you, this the magical glass that show'd him. 1652Ashmole Theat. Chem. Prol. 8 By the Magicall or Prospective Stone it is possible to discover any Person in what part of the World soever. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 100 Fastened over the heart with magical bands.
†c. = magic a. 1 c. Obs.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 24 They [of Mohelia] are superstitious and Magicall.
2. Resembling magic in action or effect. Also, produced as if by magic.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. i. 31 Ile humbly signifie what in his name, That magicall word of Warre we haue effected. 1750Franklin Lett. Wks. 1840 VI. 103 The most magically magical of any magic square. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. xxix, All its hues Their magical variety diffuse. 1824Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. ix. 183 Some little hay was got in in a magical sort of way between the showers. 1851Nichol Archit. Heav. 13 The almost magical velocity of light. 1877Black Green Past. ii. (1878) 14 The magical disappearance of about fifty or sixty rabbits. 1884Nonconf. & Indep. 12 June 577/2 The warm and abundant rain-showers..have already had a magical effect upon the face of the country.
†3. magical circle, magical square: see magic a. 3. Obs.
1749Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 II. 160, I am glad the perusal of the magical squares afforded you any amusement. I now send you the magical circle. 1915Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 322/1 The famous constituent of the mediaeval magical circle.
Hence magiˈcality, magical power or quality; ˈmagicalize v. trans., to give a magical character to.
1867M. Arnold Celtic Lit. 161 The landscape..is suddenly magicalised by the romance touch. 1924W. J. Locke Coming of Amos iv. 43 An untouched cheque-book of whose magicality he was innocently certain.
Add:4. Special collocations: magical realism = magic realism s.v. *magic a. 2 a.
1937H. T. Lowe-Porter tr.F. Werfel's Twilight of World 394 In all the little show-windows in the rue de La Boëtie you will see the magical realism which is the last word today. 1980N.Y. Times 29 June (Connecticut Weekly section) 16/1 ‘Mysterious and Magical Realism’, the theme now at the Aldrich Museum through August, has more than 50 works by 40 artists to illustrate it. 1983Ibid. 22 May ii. 14/5 Masters of ‘magical realism’, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Miguel Angel Asturias.
magical realist a. and n. = magic realist n. and a. s.v. *magic a. 2 a.
1981N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 11 Oct. 36/5, I would like to think that a novelita like ‘Tamazunchale’ transcended the labels ethnic, Chicano, magical realist, or fantasist. 1983Time 7 Mar. 79/1 The man who once dreaded that he might become ‘the third-rate Faulkner of the Third World’ was hailed as its leading magical realist. 1986Atlantic Monthly Mar. 104/2 The Latin-American novel has always beeen Quixotic—playful, self-conscious, ‘magical realist’. 1990N. Williams Wimbledon Poisoner xxii. 148 Henry disliked most species of fiction writer but of all of them considered magical realists to be the most suspect. |