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1590 H. Holland Treat. against Witchcraft sig. C4^v Shal we thinke that Balaam wrought magically?

1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 190 A ring Magically prepared.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 161 The Plastick Nature acting neither by Knowledge nor by Animal Fancy..must be concluded to act Fatally, Magically and Sympathetically.

1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra iv. viii. §148 It was believed, that unless they were Magically used, they would do more hurt, than good.

1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 454 Others more Superstitious, and Magically inclined.

1842 E. A. Poe Pit & Pendulum in Gift 1843 134 The figures of the judges vanished, as if magically, from before me.

1870 T. H. Huxley Lay Serm. xiv. 352 There are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day, and magically reflect the future.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xl. 328 The stratagem was for the time almost magically successful.

1913 E. F. Benson Thorley Weir iv. 151 Probably Charles never painted more magically than in those ten minutes.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 69/2 They represent a new kind of entertainment, a sort of magically recurrent daily ritual.

1979 P. Roth Ghost Writer (1980) i. 50 The crisis seemed magically to have resolved itself.

1989 GM Nov. 72/1 Interesting doors are discovered magically locked.