| 单词 | magico-oriental |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmagico-oriental Forming adjectives meaning ‘magical and ——’, ‘characterized by a combination of magic and ——’, as magico-erotic, magico-oriental, magico-political, magico-profane, magico-religious, etc. (rare in English contexts before 20th cent.) ΚΠ 1632 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 4) ii. ii. iv. 281 Balsomes, strange extracts, elixars, and such like magico-magneticall cures. 1795 P. Will tr. C. Tschink (title) The victim of magical delusion; or, The mystery of the revolution of P-l: a magico-political tale. 1908 Man 8 46 The magico-religious ideas and practices of savage and proto-historic man. 1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 258/2 These are of a magico-erotic nature, and, like similar rites among savages, are founded on the belief that the ghost can cause fruitfulness, or perhaps may incarnate himself in the barren woman who performs the rite. 1922 Nature 29 Apr. 540/2 The complex and inexorable system of magico-religious gennas. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Nov. 1004/3 As against the ‘magico-oriental’ view of the image maintained by the Iconoclast stands the Platonism of the image-worshipper. 1941 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 71 85/2 Numerous acts and ceremonies..which the European..would place under the category of magico-profane, magico-religious or superstition. 1967 C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol 17 Anglo-Saxon magico-religious arts. 1987 Amer. Anthropologist 89 1056/2 A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies. < as lemmas |
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