abracadabra

Synonyymisanakirja: abracadabra

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A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell; any spell or incantation making use of the word. (defdate)
(quote-book)|chapter=The Virginia Convention—Every Change is Not Reform|title=The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=(w), 200 w:Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway; Philadelphia, Pa.: w:George Swett Appleton|George Swett Appleton, 164 w:Chestnut Street (Philadelphia)|Chestnut-Street|year=1851|volume=II|page=329|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-8QEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA329|oclc=1965434|passage=Where is the necessity of this provision in the Constitution? (..) Can anyone believe that we, by any amendments of ours, by any of our scribbling on that parchment, by any amulet, any legerdemain—charm—Abrecadabra—of ours can prevent our sons from doing the same thing—that is, from doing as they please, just as we are doing as we please? It is impossible. Who can bind posterity?
(quote-journal)|date=28 Aug 2012|passage=With a quiet bank holiday afternoon to fill, the Mill yesterday dug out the old magic kit, brushed the cobwebs off its top hat and practiced a few abracadabras.
mumbo-jumbo Mumbo-jumbo; obscure language or technicality technicalities; jargon. (defdate)

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(quote-book)|title=Religion and the Decline of Magic|publisher=Folio Society 2012|page=335|passage=Astrology was not specifically banned in the statutes against witchcraft, but so long as its technicalities remained abracadabra to the lay public there was always a risk that the practitioner might find himself arrested for sorcery.
(non-gloss definition) (defdate)
Interjection abracadabra
An unspecified magical formula.
puhekieltä A mystical word from kabbalism.
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