| 单词 | sympathetic magic |
| 释义 | sympathetic magicnounmagic predicated on the belief that one thing or event can affect another at a distance as a consequence of a sympathetic connection between them. Compare contagious magic, imitative magic. Origin of sympathetic magicFirst recorded in 1900–05 Words nearby sympathetic magicsympathetic contact, sympathetic ganglia, sympathetic imbalance, sympathetic ink, sympathetic introspection, sympathetic magic, sympathetic nerve, sympathetic nervous system, sympathetic ophthalmia, sympathetic strike, sympathetic string Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for sympathetic magicsympathetic magic nouna type of magic in which it is sought to produce a large-scale effect, often at a distance, by performing some small-scale ceremony resembling it, such as the pouring of water on an altar to induce rainfall Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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