Magic vs Monster - What's the difference?
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The use of rituals or actions, especially based on supernatural or occult knowledge, to manipulate or obtain information about the natural world, especially when seen as falling outside the realm of religion; also the forces allegedly drawn on for such practices.
*c. 1489 , (William Caxton), Foure Sonnes of Aymon :
*:And whan he shall be arrayed as I telle you / lete hym thenne doo his incantacyons & his magyke as he wyll […].
*1781 , (Edward Gibbon), Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , II.23:
*:The arts of magic and divination were strictly prohibited.
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 23:
*:Conversions to the new religion […] have frequently been assisted by the view of converts that they are acquiring not just a means of otherworldly salvation, but a new and more powerful magic .
A specific ritual or procedure associated with supernatural magic or with mysticism; a spell.
Something producing remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
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, chapter=1 A conjuring trick or illusion performed to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.
Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic; wonderful, amazing.
Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
(colloquial) Great; excellent.
(physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.
To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic.
A terrifying and dangerous, wild or fictional creature.
A bizarre or whimsical creature.
An extremely cruel or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
A horribly deformed person.
* 1837 , Medico-Chirurgical Review (page 465)
(figuratively) A badly behaved child, a brat.
(informal) Something unusually large.
(informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
Very large; worthy of a monster.
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To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
* 1983 , Michael Slater, Dickens and Women ,
* 2005 , Diana Medlicott, The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are'', Margaret Sönser Breen (editor), ''Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity ,
* 2011 , Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears ,
To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
* 1968 , , Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays ,
* 2009 , Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy ,
* 2010 , Joshua E. S. Phillips, None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture ,
(chiefly, Australia) To harass.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 31, author=Leo Schlink, title=Match looms as final for the ages, work=Herald Sun
, passage=Andy Roddick has been monstered by both Federer and Nadal and suffered a 6-2 7-5 7-5 semi-final loss at the hands of the Swiss champion. }}
As a proper noun magic
is the decrypted japanese messages produced by us cryptographers in and prior to world war ii.As a noun monster is
pattern; that from which a copy is made.magic
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Alternative forms
* magick (qualifier) Used as a deliberate archaism; used for supernatural magic, as distinguished from stage magic. * magicke (obsolete) * magique (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}
Synonyms
* (allegedly supernatural method to dominate natural forces) dwimmer, thaumaturgy, conjuring, sorcery, witchcraft, dweomercraft/dwimmercraft * (illusion performed to give the appearance of magic or the supernatural) sleight of hand, illusionism, legerdemain, dwimmerAdjective
(-)- a magic''' wand; a '''magic dragon
- a magic moment
- a magic''' show; a '''magic trick
- — I cleaned up the flat while you were out. — Really? Magic !
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*monster
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Alternative forms
* monstre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster .
- Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster !
- Deducting then these cases, we have a large proportion of imperfect foetuses, which belonged to twin conceptions, and in which, therefore, the circulation of the monster may have essentially depended on that of the sound child.
- Sit still, you little monster !
- Have you seen those powerlifters on TV? They're monsters .
- That dude playing guitar is a monster .
Derived terms
* Cookie Monster * corporate monster * monstrosity * Frankenstein's monster * the Loch Ness monster * monster truckAdjective
(-)- He has a monster appetite.
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
* (very large) gigantic, monstrousVerb
(en verb)page 290,
- A Tale of Two Cities'' and ''Great Expectations feature four cases of women monstered by passion. Madame Defarge is ‘a tigress’, Mrs Joe a virago, Molly (Estella?s criminal mother) ‘a wild beast tamed’ and Miss Havisham a witch-like creature, a ghastly combination of waxwork and skeleton.
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- The community forgives: this is in deep contrast to offenders that emerge from prison and remain stigmatised and monstered , often unable to get work or housing.
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- Demonizing or monstering other groups has even become part of the cycle of American politics.
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- Animals in our world have been monstered' by human action as much as the free beasts of the pre-lapsarian state were ' monstered by the primal crime.
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- In 2002, American interrogators on the ground in Afghanistan developed a technique they called “monstering'.” The commander “instituted a new rule that a prisoner could be kept awake and in the booth for as long as an interrogator could last.” One “' monstering ” interrogator engaged in this for thirty hours.177
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- The interrogators asked members of the 377th Military Police Company to help them with monstering , and the MPs complied.
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