| 单词 | white magic |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite magic white magic n. [compare French magie blanche (1630)] magic which has a benign or harmless intent, or which does not involve the invocation of evil spirits; also in extended use; cf. black magic n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a).See also white paternoster n. at paternoster n. 2a, and white witch n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > white or natural magic natural magicc1425 theurgy1569 white magic1614 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. xi. §6. 209 There is also another art.., which they call Theurgia, or White Magicke; a pretended conference with good Spirits or Angels, whom by sacrifice and inuocation they draw out of Heauen, and Communicate withall. 1718 F. Hutchinson Hist. Ess. conc. Witchcraft ii. 26 A Teacher of the White Magic, that pretends to deal only with Good Angels. 1855 Harper's Mag. Sept. 539/1 Having been thrust by some species of white magic known only to Milly, through an interminable perspective of loops, it was solemnly re-pinned to the chair. 1910 R. M. Lawrence Primitive Psycho-therapy & Quackery iv. 45 The use of curative spells and characts comes within the province of white magic. 2008 Times 25 Jan. 100/1 Sven-Göran Eriksson has been linked to an Italian faith healer, exorcist and ‘practitioner of white magic’. < as lemmas |
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