| 单词 | word-magic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasword-magic word-magic n. (a) enchanting or enthralling use of words; a powerful effect achieved by means of words; (b) Cultural Anthropology magic thought to be exerted by the knowledge or use of the proper name or term for something, or the supposed magical property residing in such a name. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > magical property of a name word-magic1848 1848 J. S. Smith Mirabeau II. iv. xv. 303 The mighty man who out-thundered his everlasting word-magic from the tribune of the French Assembly. 1895 Littell's Living Age 20 Apr. 170/1 Then it is that we meet, as in the ‘Ballad of a Nun’, with a descriptive stanza so full of a wonderful word-magic. 1923 C. K. Ogden & I. A. Richards Meaning of Meaning ii. 42 The earlier writers are full of the relics of primitive word-magic. To classify things is to name them..to know their names is to have power over their souls. 1938 S. Chase Tyranny of Words iv. 37 Here, to follow Malinowski, we note the seeds of word magic, in which the name gives power over the person or thing it signifies. 1960 H. Read Forms of Things Unknown vii. 121 The name he chooses is magically apt, and in word-magic we must acknowledge the primordial intensive aspect of poetry. 2002 N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 113 It was as if I felt that, through a sort of word-magic, if I wrote my future, it might come to pass. < as lemmas |
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