| 单词 | magic mirror |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmagic mirror b. Of a material object: used or usable in magic rites, having (or apparently having) supernatural powers, under the influence of magic. Also (frequently in magic glass, magic mirror) applied to objects in which future events or distant places may be seen; often figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [adjective] > used in magic rites (of object) magical1607 magic1621 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis i. 25 Then, silent, with his Magick rod he strokes Their languisht lights, which sounder sleep prouokes. ?1625 T. Middleton Game at Chess (new ed.) iv. sig. G4 v If there proue no check in the Magick-glasse. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 109 This..With noxious Weeds..Dire Stepdames in the Magick Bowl infuse. View more context for this quotation 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 332. ¶1 They describe a sort of Magick Circle. 1733 Gentleman's Mag. June 289/1 Upon putting that magick Wand into his Hand again, all Things have been right again? 1775 E. Carter in Poems by Eminent Ladies (new ed.) I. 54 Your transient forms like shadows pass. Frail offspring of the magick glass. 1786 R. Burns Poems 72 Where Pleasure is the Magic-wand, That, wielded right, Maks Hours like Minutes [etc.]. 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 91 Memory—What softened views thy magic glass reveals. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. viii. 226 You have used neither..chrystal, pentacle, magic mirror, nor geomantic figure. 1870 A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford I. vi. 185 The possessor of a magic crystal ball. 1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 107 A portrait of Hadrian, engraved with Mercury in a magic ring. 1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 158 Just as the magic mill of the fable continues magical. 1974 W. Foley Child in Forest 28 Dad said that upon his soul, if it weren't a magic glass! 1992 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 27 Mar. 34/5 As Thomas concludes, everyone who looks in the Newmanian magic mirror finds there a reflection of himself. < as lemmas |
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